As darkness falls, Jupiter, nearing its biggest and brightest for 2024 rises north of due east and remains on display ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed its magnetometer's boom and several antennas for its radar instrument ...

Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.

Since 2016, the orbiter’s JunoCam instrument has captured spectacular images of the gas giant. The latest batch of shots is ...

Astronomers at UC Berkeley have identified mysterious Earth-sized spots at Jupiter’s poles with rapid life cycles.

Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A UC ...

Astronomers have discovered mysterious, Earth-sized dark spots at Jupiter’s poles that appear and disappear unpredictably.

A "swarm" of tiny robo-fish developed by NASA could soon be hunting for alien sea creatures in oceans on the moons around ...

The Great Red Spot is not the only Earth-sized atmospheric disturbance seen on Jupiter. That dramatic storm remains number ...

The movie holds a “rotten” 27% rating on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus reading, “Pleasing to the ...