Gaze in awe at this moody, first image of Jupiter's swirling north pole: "[I]t looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before," Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research ...

Giant vortices at Jupiter's poles, which shouldn't exist there, surprised scientists. The mystery has finally been solved thanks to the analysis of archival images from the Hubble telescope.

Auroras are one of Earth’s most mesmerizing natural phenomena, but did you know they also exist on other planets? From the ...

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Mapping the magnetic and gravity fields should also expose Jupiter's structure. NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko JunoCam has seen giant cyclones at the poles But images from JunoCam - a camera that ...

It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...

20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter ...

ROTATION OF JUPITER.—Most of the determinations of ... and little has been known as to the conditions of rotation near the poles. This is due to the fact that conspicuous and sufficiently ...