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NASA's Juno navigators enable Jupiter cyclone discovery
Dec 16, 2019 (SPX)
"The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the South...
The PI's Perspective: What a Year, What a Decade!
Dec 08, 2019 (SPX)
Much more is in store for this mission, but as this year and decade conclude, I want to look back and take stock of where we have been. For New Horizons, 2019 b...
Reports of Jupiter's Great Red Spot demise greatly exaggerated
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
Philip Marcus, from the University of California, Berkeley, will explain why the pictures from astronomers, both professionals and amateur, are not telling the ...
Aquatic rover goes for a drive under the ice
Nov 20, 2019 (JPL)
BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, is being developed for underwater exploration in extraterrestrial, icy waters by engineers at NASA's Jet ...
NASA scientists confirm water vapor on Europa
Nov 19, 2019 (SPX)
What makes this moon so alluring is the possibility that it may possess all of the ingredients necessary for life. Scientists have evidence that one of these in...
NASA finds Neptune moons locked in 'Dance of Avoidance'
Nov 18, 2019 (JPL)
Orbital dynamics experts are calling it a "dance of avoidance" performed by the tiny moons Naiad and Thalassa. The two are true partners, orbiting only about 1,...
New Horizons Kuiper Belt Flyby object officially named 'Arrokoth'
Nov 13, 2019 (SPX)
With consent from Powhatan Tribal elders and representatives, NASA's New Horizons team - whose spacecraft performed the record-breaking reconnaissance of Arroko...
NASA renames faraway ice world 'Arrokoth' after backlash
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
The icy rock, which orbits in the dark and frigid Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto, was visited by the NASA spaceship New Horizons in January this...
Juice cast in gold
Nov 05, 2019 (ESA)
Juice is planned for launch in 2022, and its instruments are currently being perfected and calibrated so they are ready to start work once in space. This image ...
SwRI to plan Pluto orbiter mission
Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)
The study is one of 10 different mission studies that NASA is sponsoring to prepare for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey. The results of these studies ...
NASA's Juno prepares to jump Jupiter's shadow
Oct 02, 2019 (JPL)
Juno began the maneuver yesterday, on Sept. 30, at 7:46 p.m. EDT (4:46 p.m. PDT) and completed it early on Oct. 1. Using the spacecraft's reaction-control thrus...
Huge Volcano on Jupiter's Moon Io Erupts on Regular Schedule
Sep 18, 2019 (SPX)
The volcano Loki is expected to erupt in mid-September 2019, according to a poster by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun presented this ...
Stony-iron meteoroid caused August impact flash at Jupiter
Sep 17, 2019 (SPX)
Ethan Chappel from Cibolo Texas captured a short flash of light at 04:07 UTC on 7th August in video observations of Jupiter using a small telescope in his backy...
ALMA shows what's inside Jupiter's storms
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
New radio wave images made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) provide a unique view of Jupiter's atmosphere down to fifty kilometers b...
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a Universit...
Mission to Jupiter's icy moon confirmed
Aug 20, 2019 (JPL)
The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science payload...
Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet
Aug 19, 2019 (SPX)
Astronomers from Rice University and China's Sun Yat-sen University say their head-on impact scenario can explain Juno's previously puzzling gravitational readi...
Giant Impact Disrupted Jupiter's Core
Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)
NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter since July 2016 has not only delivered stunning images but also unexpected results about the interior of the planet. To fit t...
Young Jupiter Was Smacked Head-On by Massive Newborn Planet
Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)
Astronomers from Rice University and China's Sun Yat-sen University say their head-on impact scenario can explain Juno's previously puzzling gravitational readi...
Hubble showcases new portrait of Jupiter
Aug 09, 2019 (SPX)
Among the most striking features in the image are the rich colours of the clouds moving toward the Great Red Spot. This huge anticyclonic storm is roughly the d...
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