http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has revealed that beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is an "ocean" of molten or partially molten magma. http://phys.org/news224426940.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 May 2011 14:00:12 EST news224426940 Been outside at midnight lately? There's something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade -- and it is dazzling. http://phys.org/news204287263.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:28:03 EST news204287263 (AP) -- Better catch Jupiter next week in the night sky. It won't be that big or bright again until 2022. Jupiter will pass 368 million miles from Earth late Monday, its closest approach since 1963. You can see it low in the east around dusk. Around midnight, it will be directly overhead. That's because Earth will be passing between Jupiter and the sun, into the wee hours of Tuesday. http://phys.org/news203954593.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:03:32 EST news203954593 (PhysOrg.com) -- Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere on June 3 and Aug. 20. http://phys.org/news203331399.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:57:31 EST news203331399 Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. http://phys.org/news203080119.html Space & Earth Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:58 EST news203080119 (PhysOrg.com) -- The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is often depicted as a dull zone of dead rocks with an occasional wayward speedster smashing through on its way toward the sun. http://phys.org/news201956603.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:00:16 EST news201956603 An international CSIRO-led team of astronomers has developed a new way to weigh the planets in our Solar System - using radio signals from the small spinning stars called pulsars. http://phys.org/news201881579.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:13:24 EST news201881579 (AP) -- A telescope made by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab for NASA is on track to complete its first sky survey. http://phys.org/news198746721.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:50:01 EST news198746721 Jupiter's moon Europa has a salty ocean where life could exist. A thick ice shell separates the ocean from our exploration vehicles, and it’s not known how far down we’d need to drill. But why drill at all, when evidence for life could be lying right on the surface? http://phys.org/news196006232.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:20:03 EST news196006232 At 22:31 (CEST) on 3 June 2010 Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley saw a two-second-long flash of light on the disc of Jupiter. He was watching a live video feed from his telescope. In the Philippines, amateur astronomer Chris Go confirmed that he had simultaneously recorded the transitory event on video. Wesley was the discoverer of the now world-famous July 2009 impact. http://phys.org/news195903339.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:36:07 EST news195903339 On June 3rd, 2010, something hit Jupiter. A comet or asteroid descended from the black of space, struck the planet's cloudtops, and disintegrated, producing a flash of light so bright it was visible in backyard telescopes on Earth. Soon, observers around the world were training their optics on the impact site, waiting to monitor the cindery cloud of debris which always seems to accompany a strike of this kind. http://phys.org/news195802922.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:42:42 EST news195802922 (PhysOrg.com) -- Io is one of the four moons of Jupiter that Galileo discovered after he turned his new telescope heavenward. They shocked him and his contemporaries because they demonstrated that heavenly bodies can orbit objects other than the Earth. http://phys.org/news195757568.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:06:39 EST news195757568 (PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including Oxford University scientists, has discovered six diverse new planets, from 'shrunken-Saturns' to 'bloated hot Jupiters', as well a rare brown dwarf with 60 times the mass of Jupiter. http://phys.org/news195720221.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:50:01 EST news195720221 Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Could it also be a habitat for life? http://phys.org/news195411129.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:40:01 EST news195411129 Jupiter has gotten whacked again. http://phys.org/news194845088.html Space & Earth Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:50:01 EST news194845088 (PhysOrg.com) -- Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer in Australia, and soon, observatories around the world, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, were zeroing in on the unexpected blemish. http://phys.org/news194779433.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:24:35 EST news194779433 (PhysOrg.com) -- As darkness falls at the beginning of June, three planets will form a long line in the western sky. Saturn will be at the upper left, Mars in the middle and Venus at the lower right. http://phys.org/news194631966.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:26:44 EST news194631966 Jupiter’s moon Europa has a salty ocean, and scientists have long wondered if life could be found there. One scientist says Europa also has enough oxygen to support an ocean teeming with life. http://phys.org/news194268702.html Space & Earth Fri, 28 May 2010 12:32:13 EST news194268702 Astronomers hunting for planets orbiting nearby stars similar to the sun are looking for signs of rocky, Earth-like planets in a "habitable" zone, where conditions such as temperature and liquid water remain stable enough to support life. http://phys.org/news193931249.html Space & Earth Mon, 24 May 2010 14:47:40 EST news193931249 The Planetary Sciences Group at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country (Spain) led by Professor Agustín Sánchez Lavega, has published the first results of research into one of the recent events that has sparked off maximum interest in the world of astronomy: the impact of a large-sized celestial body on the planet Jupiter last July. http://phys.org/news193567610.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 May 2010 10:10:05 EST news193567610 (PhysOrg.com) -- New photographs of the gas giant Jupiter, the first taken on May 9, show the massive reddish band of clouds known as the Southern Equatorial Belt in the planet’s southern hemisphere has disappeared from view. http://phys.org/news193037800.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 May 2010 06:37:11 EST news193037800 New research indicates that there may be many more dwarf planets similar to Pluto in our solar system than previously thought. Studying these distant objects can help astrobiologists understand the basic properties of our solar system and the effects that dwarf planets might have on other celestial bodies, such as Earth. http://phys.org/news191516307.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:30:01 EST news191516307 (AP) -- Scientists say an apparent fragment from a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies this week has been recovered in southwestern Wisconsin. http://phys.org/news190691789.html Space & Earth Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:56:55 EST news190691789 NASA and the European Space Agency are sending a mission to study Jupiter and its moon Europa in 2020. There may be life in the moon’s ocean, but to find out a mission will have to be able to drill down through the overlying ice shell. http://phys.org/news190564066.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:30:26 EST news190564066 (PhysOrg.com) -- New, ground-breaking thermal images obtained with powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot. http://phys.org/news189428955.html Space & Earth Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:30:01 EST news189428955 Imagine you're a Brontosaurus with your face in a prehistoric tree top, munching on fresh leaves. Your relatives have ruled planet Earth for more than 150 million years. Huge and strong, you feel invincible. http://phys.org/news189107151.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:30:01 EST news189107151 Cracks in the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa contain sulfur-rich material. An expedition to a sulfur spring in the Arctic could help solve some mysteries about Europa - including its potential for life. http://phys.org/news188752629.html Space & Earth Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:40:01 EST news188752629 (PhysOrg.com) -- On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie "Up." In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, Berkeley, scientists, helium condenses into droplets and falls like rain. http://phys.org/news188481017.html Physics Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:52:57 EST news188481017 (PhysOrg.com) -- Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first “normal” exoplanet that can be studied in great detail. Designated Corot-9b, the planet regularly passes in front of a star similar to the Sun located 1500 light-years away from Earth towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake). http://phys.org/news188045650.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:07 EST news188045650 (PhysOrg.com) -- New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system linking its temperature, winds, pressure and composition with its colour. http://phys.org/news187979117.html Space & Earth Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:02 EST news187979117