A new computer model indicates Jupiter’s massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet’s interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report today in the journal Nature.

When you spend more than $1 billion on a spacecraft, it can be a nervous wait to see if everything pays off. But if and when it does, the results can be rather glorious. And NASA’s Juno spacecraft has ...

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and a major component of stars such as the Sun, as well as gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. In recent years, hydrogen’s behavior at ...

Scientists have discovered irregular lumps beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. These irregular masses may be rock formations, supported by Ganymede's icy shell for ...

Juno does not fall into those protected categories, and was also zeroed-out on the President's fiscal year 2026 budget ...

Andrew Coates receives funding from UKSA and STFC. We all recognise Jupiter by its banded pattern of counter-rotating zones and belts – this can be seen even with small garden telescopes. These ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has found a strange set of swirling cyclones at Jupiter’s northern and southern poles — and found that the stormy bands ringing its surface may extend a whopping 3,000 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter's icy moon Europa is thought to be hiding a saltwater ocean beneath its thick outer crust ...

Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io – the most volcanically active location in the solar system – Cornell University astronomers have been able to study a ...