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Topic: Jupiter

Jupiter seen from the surface of volcanic moon Io. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Heavy volcanic eruption on Jupiter's Io

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107 b based on transit observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as other space- and ground-based telescopes, led by Matthew Murphy of the University of Arizona and a team of researchers around the world. (Rachel Amaro, University of Arizona)

Planet with uneven atmosphere analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
Exoplanet HD 189733b (NASA/ESO/M. Kornmesser)

A stinky exoplanet rains molten glass

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter (Getty Images/martin_adams2000)

Lake of lava found on Jupiter's moon Io

Matthew Rozsa
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Jupiter's moon Europa in front of the planet Jupiter (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Odds for alien life on Europa drop

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's moon Europa in front of the planet Jupiter (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Planets' striking gravitational dance

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

AI could help us find life on Mars

Elizabeth Hlavinka
James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

An astronomer on James Webb's first year

Matthew Rozsa
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Artist’s impression of an aurora and the surrounding radiation belt of the ultracool dwarf LSR J1835+3259. (Chuck Carter / Melodie Kao / Heising-Simons Foundation)

Massive auroras in another solar system

Troy Farah
Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. (NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory)

Uranus mission won't happen till 2040s

Troy Farah
James Webb Space Telescope (Getty Images/NASA)

James Webb finds: Jupiter and more

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter and Saturn (NASA/iStock/Getty Images)

Why Saturn has rings and Jupiter doesn't

Matthew Rozsa
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Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine (Caltech/R. Hurt [IPAC])

Did our solar system lose a planet?

Eric Schank
Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

The chance of life on Europa goes up

Matthew Rozsa
This is an artist's illustration of a massive new exoplanet called AB Aurigae b, confirmed to be forming via new and archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope. AB Aurigae b is estimated to be about nine times more massive than Jupiter and orbits its host star over two times farther than Pluto is from our Sun. (NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

Hubble spots a "weird" Jupiter

Nicole Karlis
Jupiter (Getty Images/martin_adams2000)

Jupiter's red spot is very, very deep

Matthew Rozsa
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive hurricane-like storm big enough to swallow two Earths (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is speeding up

Nicole Karlis
mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

The Star of Bethlehem's comeback?

Eric M. Vanden Eykel - The Conversation
(Reuters/Doug Murray)

"The great conjunction" of 2020

William Teets - The Conversation
Highway to Milky Way (Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)

Space travel via new celestial autobahn?

Nicole Karlis
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This illustration shows the lightning phenomenon known as a sprite and what a sprite could look like in Jupiter's atmosphere. Named after a mischievous, quick-witted character in English folklore, sprites last for only a few milliseconds. They feature a central blob of light with long tendrils of light extending down toward the ground and upward. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI)

Sprites haunt Jupiter’s atmosphere

Nicole Karlis
An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

The forecast on Jupiter

Nicole Karlis
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon, Titan. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan's organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry. (NASA/JHU-APL)

Humanity's space travel plans, 2020–2030

Nicole Karlis
This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

Shira Tarlo
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