NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected an unusual new variety of plasma phenomenon occurring over Jupiter's north pole.

New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest planet.

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

Image from a model produced by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research depicting Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, giant swirling waves, at the Jupiter magnetosphere and the solar wind boundary, ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Short Wave hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong about the music of Earth's magnetosphere, a mission to Jupiter's icy moons, and a potential runaway supermassive black hole.

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, launched over four decades ago, collected data in 1978 that suggests the possibility of jets existing above other planets.

“A fast solar wind stream slammed into Jupiter’s magnetosphere, which acts like a giant magnetic bubble pushing back against the solar wind, triggering intense auroral activity which dumped ...

The side of Jupiter's magnetosphere facing the sun gets squashed by the barrage of oncoming solar-wind particles, but the opposite side is distended like the tail of a comet.

A team has found that NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter's magnetosphere. The waves are an ...

One primary theory to explain its presence is that Jupiter's powerful magnetosphere may be knocking loose molecules of hydrogen, water and oxygen from the ice on Callisto's surface.