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Jupiter’s Magnetosphere Will Blow Your Mind While it Kills Your Spacecraft
Jupiter is a huge planet, but its magnetosphere is mind-blowingly massive. It extends out to nearly 5 million kilometers (3 million miles) wide on average, 150 times wider than Jupiter itself and...
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NASA Approves New Horizons Extended KBO Mission, Keeps Dawn at Ceres
In an ‘Independence Day’ gift to a slew of US planetary research scientists, NASA has granted approval to nine ongoing missions to continue for another two years this holiday weekend. The biggest news...
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Juno Snaps Final View of Jovian System Ahead of ‘Independence Day’ Orbital...
After a nearly 5 year odyssey across the solar system, NASA’s solar powered Juno orbiter is all set to ignite its main engine late tonight and set off a powerful charge of do-or-die fireworks on...
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Welcome to Jupiter – NASA’s Juno Achieves Orbit around ‘King of the Planets’
Welcome to Jupiter! NASA’s Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter at this moment! “NASA did it again!” pronounced an elated Scott Bolton, investigator of Juno from Southwest Research Institute in San...
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Juno Transmits 1st Orbital Imagery after Swooping Arrival Over Jovian Cloud...
NASA’s newly arrived Jovian orbiter Juno has transmitted its first imagery since reaching orbit last week on July 4 after swooping over Jupiter’s cloud tops and powering back up its package of...
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5 Days, 2 Spectacular Conjunctions
Conjunctions of bright planets make for jewelry in the sky. This week, get ready for some celestial shimmer. If you've been following the hither and thither of Mars and Saturn near Antares this...
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JUNO Transmits First Up-Close Look Soarin’ over Jupiter
NASA’s JUNO spacecraft successfully swooped over the Jovian cloud tops today, Saturday, Aug. 27, gathering its first up close images and science observations of the 'King of the Planets' since braking...
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Juno Captures Jupiter’s Enthralling Poles From 2,500 Miles
Juno is sending data from Jupiter back to us, courtesy of the Deep Space Network, and the first images are meeting our hyped-up expectations. On August 27, the Juno spacecraft came within about 4,200...
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Seeing Double: Jupiter Returns at Dawn
Missing Jove? The largest planet in our solar system is currently on the far side of the Sun and just passed solar conjunction on September 26th, 2016. October now sees Jupiter slowly return to the...
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No, There Won’t Be 15 Days of Darkness in November. It’s Another Stupid Hoax.
The internet is great, isn’t it? You can post anything you want on the internet, and if people like the sound of it, they spread it. It doesn’t make any difference if it’s true or not. We’re not born...
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Astronomers Think They Know Where Rosetta’s Comet Came From
In the distant past, the orbit of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko extended far beyond Neptune into the refrigerated Kuiper Belt. Interactions with the gravitational giant Jupiter altered the comet’s orbit...
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101 Astronomical Events for 2017: A Teaser
It’s that time of year again… time to look ahead at the top 101 astronomical events for the coming year. And this year ’round, we finally took the plunge. After years of considering it, we took the...
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Juno Captures a Stunning Jovian ‘Pearl’
Astro-imager Damian Peach reprocessed one of the latest images taken by Juno’s JunoCam during its 3rd close flyby of the planet on Dec. 11. The photo highlights one of the large ‘pearls’ (right) that...
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Juno Just Took One Of The Best Images Of Jupiter Ever
Wow! If you’ve ever wanted to know what it would be like to hang above Jupiter’s clouds, here you go. This absolutely stunning view of Jupiter’s northern latitudes shows incredible detail of gas...
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A Proposal For Juno To Observe The Volcanoes Of Io
To accomplish its science objectives, NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbits over Jupiter’s poles and passes repeatedly through hazardous radiation belts. Two Boston University researchers propose using Juno to...
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This Is The Highest Resolution Image Of Europa We Have … For Now
This is the highest resolution image taken by Galileo at Europa — Jupiter’s 4th largest moon — until our next mission to the planet. It was obtained at an original image scale of 19 feet (6 meters) per...
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91 Astronomers Combine 1000 Images Into One Amazing Journey to Jupiter
A renewed era of space exploration is underway. Compared to the Space Race of the 20th century, which was characterized by two superpowers locked in a game of “getting there first”, the new era is...
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Juno Will Get No Closer To Jupiter Due To Engine Troubles
On July 4th, 2016, the Juno mission established orbit around Jupiter, becoming the second spacecraft in history to do so (after the Galileo probe). Since then, the probe has been in a regular 53.4-day...
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Juno’s Monday Jupiter Flyby Promises New Batch of Images & Science
Juno is only part way through its mission to Jupiter, and already we’ve seen some absolutely breathtaking images of the gas giant. On Monday, the Juno spacecraft will flyby Jupiter again. This will be...
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See Mercury At Dusk, New Comet Lovejoy At Dawn
Mercury requests the company of your gaze now through the beginning of April, when it shines near Mars low in the west after sunset. Created with Stellarium March has been a busy month for planet and...
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