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Experiment resolves mystery about wind flows on Jupiter
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
One mystery has been whether the jets exist only in the planet's upper atmosphere - much like the Earth's own jet streams - or whether they plunge into Jupiter'...
Pluto Global Color Map
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
This new, detailed global mosaic color map of Pluto is based on a series of three color filter images obtained by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera ...
Public to Choose Jupiter Picture Sites for NASA Juno
Jan 20, 2017 (JPL)
Where should NASA's Juno spacecraft aim its camera during its next close pass of Jupiter on Feb. 2? You can now play a part in the decision. For the first time,...
How a moon slows the decay of Pluto's atmosphere
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
Pluto's relationship with its moon Charon is one of the more unusual interactions in the solar system due to Charon's size and proximity. It's more than half of...
Lowell Observatory to renovate Pluto discovery telescope
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
The instrument at Lowell Observatory used by Clyde Tombaugh to discover Pluto will soon undergo renovation. The year-long project, set to begin on January 12, w...
Flying observatory makes observations of Jupiter previously only possible from space
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
For the first time since the twin Voyager spacecraft missions in 1979, scientists have produced far-infrared maps of Jupiter using NASA's Stratospheric Observat...
York U research identifies icy ridges on Pluto
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
Using a model similar to what meteorologists use to forecast weather on Earth and a computer simulation of the physics of evaporating ices, a new study publishe...
Exploring Pluto and the Wild Back Yonder
Dec 26, 2016 (SPX)
As 2016 ends, I can't help but point out an interesting symmetry in where the mission has recently been and where we are going. Exactly two years ago we had jus...
Juno Captures Jupiter 'Pearl'
Dec 16, 2016 (JPL)
This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights the seventh of eight features forming a 'string of pearls on Jupiter - massive cou...
Juno Mission Prepares for December 11 Jupiter Flyby
Dec 13, 2016 (JPL)
On Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST (12:04 p.m. EST, 17:04 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter. At the time of closest...
Research Offers Clues About the Timing of Jupiter's Formation
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
A peculiar class of meteorites has offered scientists new clues about when the planet Jupiter took shape and wandered through the solar system. Scientists have ...
New Perspective on How Pluto's Icy Heart Came to Be
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Pluto's "icy heart" is a bright, two-lobed feature on its surface that has attracted researchers ever since its discovery by the NASA New Horizons team in 2015....
Pluto follows its cold, cold heart
Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)
Sputnik Planitia, a 1,000-kilometer wide basin within the iconic heart-shaped region observed on Pluto's surface, could be in its present location because accum...
New analysis adds to support for a subsurface ocean on Pluto
Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)
A liquid ocean lying deep beneath Pluto's frozen surface is the best explanation for features revealed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, according to a new ana...
New Analysis Supports Subsurface Ocean on Pluto 1PM ET Nov 16
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
A liquid ocean lying deep beneath Pluto's frozen surface is the best explanation for features revealed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, according to a new ana...
New Analysis Supports Subsurface Ocean on Pluto
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
A liquid ocean lying deep beneath Pluto's frozen surface is the best explanation for features revealed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, according to a new ana...
Mystery solved behind birth of Saturn's rings
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers has presented a new model for the origin of Saturn's rings based on results of computer simulations. The results of the simulations are al...
Last Bits of 2015 Pluto Flyby Data Received on Earth
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from the Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital rec...
Uranus may have two undiscovered moons
Oct 25, 2016 (JPL)
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then. A new study led by Univers...
Curious tilt of the Sun traced to undiscovered planet
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
Planet Nine - the undiscovered planet at the edge of the solar system that was predicted by the work of Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2...
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