Such storms on Jupiter are the focus of a new citizen science project hosted on Zooniverse. Jovian Vortex Hunter launched Tuesday (June 21) to allow anyone around the world to help scientists ...

A research team led by the University of Minnesota recently launched a project that aims to study cloud vortices on Jupiter’s atmosphere. The team is relying on the general public to contribute ...

What happens when matter is squeezed so harshly that the rules of chemistry and physics seem to collapse? Deep below the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, hydrogen the most primitive and ...

Recent studies are changing what we know about the clouds of Jupiter, and the results are surprising. Amateur and professional astronomers have worked together to uncover that these clouds are not ...

The European Space Agency will soon send JUICE, or the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer on a mission to scout out Jupiter and three of its 79 moons: Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.. Scheduled to launch ...

Most of the 13 projects chosen will look at distant objects like black holes or far-away galaxies. But one project will look closer to home — at Jupiter, right in our cosmic backyard.

NASA NASA spacecraft to scour Jupiter's icy moon in search of life-supporting conditions Europa Clipper, NASA's largest spacecraft built to study another planet, will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

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“There’s a lot of science to be gained from that.” The two missions were born in 2008 in response to exciting results from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft , which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

Visible appearance of Jupiter and Saturn reconstructed from VLT/MUSE observations on 23 March 2020 and 6 April 2017, respectively. The left-hand column shows the reconstructed colors when no gamma ...

You can watch an online webcast of Jupiter at opposition on Tuesday (Sept. 27) beginning at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project. You may like ...