Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
According to Juno's data these images show the chaotic, colorful atmosphere of Jupiter, representing fine-scale patterns ...
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...
If you didn't know, Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. Let's explain ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...
Jaw-dropping new images show Jupiter in eye-popping detail. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured incredible views of the stormy ...
One of Jupiter’s 95 known moons, Europa is almost the size ... to tease out the contents of Europa’s surface and tenuous atmosphere. The name hearkens to the swift sailing ships of centuries ...
Data taken by the Juno probe in 2016 indicates a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen dissociated from water vapor by ultraviolet radiation working in conjunction with Jupiter’s ...