A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captured this enhanced-color view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant ...

Jupiter is a massive, terrifying planet. Despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the ...

New secrets about Jupiter's volcanically volatile moon Io have been revealed by NASA's Juno probe. Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, is covered in lakes made of lava, according to a new paper in the ...

Stunning patterns in Jupiter’s atmosphere have been replicated more accurately than ever before in the lab – using a rotating tub filled with water. Michael Le Bars at Aix-Marseille University in ...

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If there's no magma ocean, where does the 'melt' come from that emerges from the volcanoes as lava? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A view of Jupiter's moon Io captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on December 30, 2023. NASA / SWRI / MSSS / Jason Perry under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED On Saturday, NASA’s Juno spacecraft traveled closer to ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary ...

The asteroid strike would have "completely removed the original surface" of Ganymede. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A colossal ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – ...