The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

Our solar system is full of phenomena that push humans to keep exploring the universe. Jupiter has humongous storms, some of ...

Because it's bigger, Jupiter ought to have larger, more spectacular rings than Saturn has. But new UC Riverside research shows Jupiter's massive moons prevent that vision from lighting up the night ...

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 ...

The king of the planets meets a waxing half moon at sunset on March 26.

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 ...

The ancient Greeks will never know how right they were in naming the planet Jupiter after Zeus himself. New observations ...

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights (aurora ...

It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a video of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, constructed from images taken by a probe ...