Nasa's probe Juno is going to reach Jupiter today, and that's awesome because we know so little about our solar-system giant. Here's what we do know: Named for the king of the Roman gods ...

Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter itself. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is also the only moon known to have its own magnetic field. Volcanoes rage on Io's ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

And yet, it's dwarfed by other planets like Jupiter and Saturn ... What mind-blowing space facts do you know?

This is technically incorrect because Jupiter is so big. When a small object orbits a big object in space, the less massive one doesn't really travel in a perfect circle around the larger one.

Sound as we know it does not exist in space. That’s because ... is also known as the ‘Jovian Planets’ after the Roman god Jupiter. Jupiter is roughly 11 times the diameter of Earth, Saturn ...

Launched in April 2023 and expected to reach Jupiter by 2031, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is an interplanetary spaceship which will make detailed observations of the ...

Enter Jupiter Ascending. Millennia-spanning human dynasties that harvest planets to make their lives longer, a human whose genes were spliced with a space wolf's, reincarnation backed by hokey ...

A quick guide to Jupiter, which is immense and the largest of all the planets. It is liquid in form and has many moons, the largest of which, Ganymede, is bigger than Mercury. NOTE: This clip was ...

Kellie Gerardi, a self-described science geek and resident of Jupiter, Florida, achieved her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. Gerardi made history as the 90th woman in space and the first ...