Stories tagged "jupiter"

A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.

Jupiter's newest red spot disrupted during its encounter with the Great Red Spot and Oval BA.

Orbiting the giant planet Jupiter is the fascinating moon, Io, one of four moons discovered by Galileo in 1610. One look at Io and it is obvious that something unusual is going on there. Its mottled surface is a collage of colors-yellow, orange, red, a...

Will unmanned robotic space missions be able to do what manned missions can do? The answer to this question is at the core of one of the greatest of the ongoing debates in space exploration.

Glowing spots on Jupiter created by electron beams around Io.

Venus and Jupiter Converge!

Two giant plumes that erupted on Jupiter suggest internal heat drives the planet's weather.

For the next few weeks, you'll be able to see all the Jupiter, Venus, and the moon all together in the early morning. What a great activity for the whole family - provided everyone's a morning person!

NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft, New Horizons, recently surfed a long tail of charged particles trailing behind Jupiter. Observations from that wild ride revealed enormous bobbing bubbles of charged particles, or "plasma," and showed that the structure

Solar systems with Jupiter-like planets may be rare in the universe.