For skywatchers, 2026 kicks off with a great chance to view Jupiter at its biggest and brightest, according to NASA’s latest ...
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On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 ...
Jupiter’s nights are anything but dark. Recent images from a fleet of NASA spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a giant world whose unlit hemisphere crackles with lightning, glows with ...
Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble to study the auroras of Jupiter. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / J. Nichols / M. Zamani Astronomers have zoomed in on Jupiter's poles to get a ...
Update, June 2, 2025: A previous version of this article stated that the Juno mission would perform a “death dive” into Jupiter in September 2025. This has been corrected with details of its planned ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft peered deep beneath Jupiter’s thick cloud cover to offer new insights into one of the solar systems most long lived weather patterns. Data from the mission launched 14 years ago ...
NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured auroras on Jupiter that have hundreds of times more energy than those here on Earth. Jupiter's auroras are like the "Northern Lights, but way bigger!" NASA ...