NASA’s mission to search for life on Europa takes shape
If we want to look for extraterrestrial life, Europa might be one of the best guesses in the solar system.
Tag: jupiter
Jupiter’s cloud bands extend for hundreds of kilometers into the atmosphere
Scientists peeled Jupiter and make striking findings.
Juno captures the closest-ever pictures of Jupiter we’ve seen — and its hair-raising voice
We've never seen anything like this before.
NASA’s Juno shuttle gets up close and personal with Jupiter
NASA's Juno shuttle will get closer to Jupiter than any other man-made structure.
Jupiter’s Red Patch Heats up the Entire Planet
We finally know what caused the huge, Earth-sized red spot on Jupiter.
Io’s atmosphere collapses every time there’s an eclipse
Reason number #1304 not to colonize Io.
Too big to orbit: Jupiter is so massive it doesn’t actually orbit the Sun
They actually take one another for a spin.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is heating its upper atmosphere
The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft sends back first color image of Jupiter from orbit
The image captures the gas giant and its surroundings in amazing detail.
Welcome to Jupiter! Juno spacecraft successfully enters orbit
Shouts of joy filled the air as Juno's success became evident and the shuttle enrolled on the gas giant's orbit.
Jupiter’s moon Europa could have Earth-like oceans
If I asked you to guess where we have the best chances of finding life outside of Earth, you'd be ...
One of Saturn’s ring has played tricks on astronomers for years
One of Saturn's ring, which is very opaque and bright seems to have played an optical illusions all along. It ...
Babylonians used advanced geometry 1,400 years before Oxford
A German astrophysicist decoded ancient Babylonian tablets stuffed with computations. His analysis reveals that these were used by the ancient ...
NASA’s solar-powered Juno shuttle breaks record distance at 793 million km from the Sun
Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers program that wants to get up-close and personal with several planets in our solar system. ...
Jupiter may have ousted a fifth gas giant out of the solar system 4 billion year ago
Our solar system likely had a fifth gas giant in its initial configuration, but the planet was ejected by Jupiter ...
Ocean of Magma Could Explain Io’s Strange Volcanoes
An ocean of magma could explain why Jupiter's moon Io has volcanoes in the "wrong place". This would also mean ...
Biggest Planets Started out as Tiny Pebbles
Gas giants like Saturn or Jupiter may have formed not from a planetary core, but rather from tiny pebbles that ...
Astronomers find huge lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io
Scientists analyzing data from the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona spotted a huge lava lake on Io, one of Jupiter's ...
Stargazers delight: Jupiter and Venus get up close and personal
Last night, Jupiter and Venus nearly converged on the night sky, being so close that you actually don't need ...
Young Jupiter Swept Through the Solar System, Destroying Super Earths
A new shocking theory suggests that Jupiter may have sweeped through our solar system much like a wrecking ball, knocking ...
Jupiter’s Moon Europa found to have Plate Tectonics
Europa, Jupiter's icy moon is the only body in the Solar System found to have plate tectonics (besides Earth). A ...
Water detected in a planet outside our solar system
Astronomers have recently discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, using a novel technique - ...
Astronomers find 200 km high water plums spurting from Europa
Europa, Jupiter's satellite, has emerged as one of the top locations in the Solar System in terms of its potential ...
Astronomers discover planet that shouldn’t be there
The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance baffled researchers. So far, ...
Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, could harbor life according to report
We've written extensively before about the life harboring possibilities of Jupiter's moon, the icy Europa. The moon is believed to ...
Black-hole wakes up from slumber and feasts on super-Jupiter planet
Artist illustration of the supermassive black hole consuming on a substellar object. (C) ESA In an unexpected discovery, astronomers have ...
Tasting the surface of Europa
If you were to lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of ...
Asteroid belts may be crucial to intelligent life formation – alien life could be rarer than thought
When you think of asteroid impacts, the last thing that might come to mind is life. Contrary to popular belief, ...
Complete geological map of Io reveals incredible volcanic surface
Since it was first discovered more than four hundred years ago by Galileo Galilei, Jupiter's innermost moon Io has played ...
Stars create gaps devoid of gas giants, supercomputer simulation shows – contradicted by our own solar system
Gas giants might just be the most whimsical planets of all: they don't just settle at any old point on ...
Venus and Jupiter cuddle in the night sky
It's really not too late to catch the spectacular show offered by Venus and Jupiter; on Monday and Tuesday evening, ...
[UPDATE] Europa is filled with shallow lakes under its surface. High chances of life
Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis Yesterday, NASA held a press briefing where scientists ...
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa said to foster life in its oceans – NASA live transmission
Europa, the icy satellite of Jupiter, is covered in a thick crust of scarred and cross-hatched ice. Missions to Europa, ...
Beautiful exoplanet aurorae 1000 times brighter than on Earth
There are few more dazzling sights in the world than that of the great Norther Lights, and in a exercise ...
Extrasolar hot Jupiter sheds some light on our own solar system
Since 1995, over 500 planets that don't orbit our Sun have been discovered, with the numbers increasing more and more ...
Coldest star so far found – not hotter than a cup of coffee
Astronomers usually classify stellar objects by a spectra going from hotter to cooler, using the letters O, B, A, F, ...
The best view so far of the Jupiter red spot
I've seen a whole lot of pictures of the red giant spot (it's about as big as Earth), but this ...
Probe launched 30 years ago is held back by mysterious unexplained force
A probe that has been launched no less than 30 years ago has come across a force that has baffled ...
When the Gas Giants are streched beyond The Point Of No Return
The quest for understanding planets and stars seems to be more intense than ever. Things we could not have imagined ...
