Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, went into safe mode during its recent flyby. However, ...

“That’s Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, casting its shadow on the planet.” He puts the show in perspective. “You’re basically watching a solar eclipse from more than 417 million miles away.” ...

There are radioactive elements within the moons of Jupiter, but much of their heating comes from another source. Volcanism on Io results from the flexing of the solid material of the moon itself.

Scott Bolton says he first dreamed of traveling through the galaxy when he was a boy camping out under the stars. Brent Humphreys Jupiter guards secrets about the early solar system,” says Scott ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Typically, a planet's magnetic field funnels the material into its atmosphere. But even planets without a field can still ...

if life exists on the moon, according to a study ... Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic Shield to Unleash Heat Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its ...