For nearly 50 years, NASA's Voyager spacecraft have been traveling farther from Earth than any human-made object in history. They've given us our first close-up looks at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...
While Jupiter's main aurora has a great deal of hot materials, a snapshot showed a cold spot in Io's auroral footprint.
The findings suggest that the gas giant's atmosphere reacts instantly to activity involving its orbiting moons.
Mission Control will be packed with experts, specialists and flight directors around-the-clock as NASA takes on its most ...
Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how Jupiter reacts to its moons through auroral footprints, plasma interactions, and rapid electron flows detected in infrared measurements.
An international team of scientists, led by PhD researcher Katie Knowles from Northumbria University, has made groundbreaking ...
On March 8, 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
Using the Webb telescope, scientists discovered an unexpectedly cold, dense region within Io’s auroral footprint in Jupiter’s northern lights.