The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique." Juno also caught sight of Jupiter's auroras, snapping photos of the planet's extreme cosmic lights in infrared. Until now, scientists hadn ...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27 ... NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come from just the first of 36 flybys that ...

Normally, Jupiter's powerful polar auroras inject significant heat into the gas giant's upper atmosphere near the poles. These spectacular lights resemble those seen on Earth, where they're ...

A high temperature band the size of multiple Earths has been captured on Jupiter for the first time. Scientists believe the heat was due to solar winds squeezing the magnetic field, and this may ...

A sonda espacial Juno capturou dados das luas Io e Júpiter, no que está sendo chamado de sobrevoo mais próximo desses dois ...

O campo magnético da Terra está prestes a ser revertido? O que acontece é que as auroras boreais de Júpiter costumam injetar calor à atmosfera próxima dos polos. As auroras por lá também ...

Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The ...

During its 20-month-mission, the spacecraft will skim only 3,000 miles above Jupiter's cloud tops to gather data about its interior. It will also explore the planet's extreme auroras. Don't expect ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.

The weather on Jupiter—much like that on Earth—not ... leading to phenomena like auroras and geomagnetic storms. The research team combined ground-based observations from the Keck telescope ...