The culprit was probably Jupiter's incredibly intense radiation belts. There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.

Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

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Researchers have observed mysterious "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, appearing on the polar ... Jupiter's north and south poles. These ovals appear dark in UV observations taken ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Back in early March, NASA released some really stunning images that the Juno probe ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself as it makes its way to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's ...

From Jupiter's planet-sized cyclones to ... This may be the case with Saturn's vortexes, too, NASA said. "If the Saturnian polar vortex indeed has an analogous structure to terrestrial hurricanes ...