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Jupiter has itself a new storm. NASA’s June probe snapped pictures of a storm that recently popped up on the gas giant and was initially spotted by an amateur astronomer,...

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter is just a third of the way through its daring adventure, and it has already revolutionized our knowledge of the gas giant. The latest findings,...

Black holes tend to come in two sizes: relatively small ones that form after a star collapses, and supermassive black holes that contain the mass of millions or billions of...

Putting a lander down on Jupiter’s potentially life-supporting moon Europacould be even trickier than engineers had thought. Europa’s surface may be extremely porous, so any probe that touches down there...

NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno probe fired its main engine Thursday (Aug. 30) to help set up a speed-boosting flyby of Earth next year. The engine burn — which took place when...

Beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa lies a massive liquid ocean — and one new animation shows how this subsurface water could move to the moon’s surface. Europa’s...

  Jupiter’s Great Red Spot just got a makeover. An artist named Mik Petter created this colorful, digital artwork with data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. According...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half, and in recent years it has turned a deep orange color. Scientists are tracking these changes to...

Stargazers zoom in on gigantic swirling maelstrom big enough to swallow Earth whole. NASA has published images of a mysterious storm on Jupiter which some UFO hunters believe is hiding...

WASHINGTON — Jupiter’s moon Europa doesn’t look like a particularly inviting place for life to thrive; the icy satellite is nearly 500 million miles from the sun, on average. But...