New science from Jupiter
When NASA's Juno spacecraft recently flew over the poles of Jupiter, researchers were astonished, as if they had never seen a giant planet before.
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Researchers offer explanation for the differences between Ganymede and Callisto moons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior states, according ...
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2010
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Swarm of microprobes to head for Jupiter
A swarm of tiny probes each with a different sensor could be fired into the clouds of Jupiter and grab data as they fall before burning up in the gas giant planet's atmosphere. The probes would last an estimated 15 minutes ...
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Jan 26, 2015
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A curious family of giant exoplanets
There are 565 exoplanets currently known that are as massive as Jupiter or bigger, about one third of the total known, confirmed exoplanet population. About one quarter of the massive population orbits very close to its star, ...
Astronomy
May 25, 2015
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What moons in other stellar systems reveal about planets like Neptune and Jupiter
What is the difference between a planet-satellite system as we have with the Earth and moon, versus a binary planet—two planets orbiting each other in a cosmic do-si-do?
Astronomy
Oct 3, 2019
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Jupiter returns as king of the night sky
Since January, there have not been any planets to see in the evening sky. Instead, all five bright planets have been visible in the early hours before sunrise. But now Jupiter, the king of the planets, is making a return ...
Space Exploration
Mar 8, 2016
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NASA's Europa Clipper Mission completes main body of the spacecraft
The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Over the next two years there, engineers and technicians will finish assembling the craft ...
Space Exploration
Jun 7, 2022
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Puzzling finding raises new questions about atmospheric physics of giant planets
The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be - a discovery that challenges scientists' understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside ...
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2018
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Scientists' research answers big question about our system's largest planet
New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest planet.
Planetary Sciences
May 6, 2024
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Super-Earth has an atmosphere, but is it steamy or gassy?
In December 2009, astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth known as GJ 1214b. At the time, they reported signs that the newfound world likely had a thick, gaseous atmosphere. Now, a team led by Jacob Bean (Harvard-Smithsonian ...
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