Jupiter

In late September, NASA’s Juno probe swept by the Jovian moon Europa in the closest flyby for decades. A new image has now landed from this encounter that presents its fractured, icy crust in ultra-high resolution.

While NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured some stunning imagery and compelling data on Jupiter since entering orbit around the gas giant in 2016, it’s not the only celestial body in the probe’s sights, now revealing more about its moon, Europa.

The James Webb Telescope has provided another mesmerizing perspective of the universe, this time turning its near-infrared camera on a target much closer to home to offer an awe-inspiring look at Jupiter.

James Webb Space Telescope's historic first images showed a galaxy cluster billions of light-years away, but now it’s turned its sights on something much closer to home. NASA has released infrared images of Jupiter used to test Webb's instruments.

The endless expanse of space is a beautiful and fascinating subject for photography. From the dramatic births and deaths of stars, to galactic glamor shots and planetary close-ups, here are some of the most breathtaking space photos of 2021.

Every year, the Hubble Space Telescope conducts a grand tour of the outer solar system planets, checking their turbulent atmospheres for changes in weather, storms, clouds and colors. This year’s shots are now in, revealing a few surprises.

The latest data from NASA's pioneering Juno probe has offered the most complete picture of Jupiter's famously colorful and chaotic atmosphere yet, producing what scientists call the first 3D picture of the Jovian atmosphere.

A first-of-a-kind NASA launch took place over the weekend, setting the agency's Lucy spacecraft on a pioneering path toward Jupiter to study an unprecedented number of asteroids as part of a single mission.

NASA's Juno deep-space probe has sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, to be captured in two decades. The stunning images were taken by the JunoCam and Stellar Reference Unit during Juno's flyby of the moon on June 7.

Scientists have recreated in the lab some of the wild weather that might be found on Jupiter and Saturn. Using extremely high pressures and laser shock waves, the researchers produced helium rain which has been hypothesized to fall on these planets.

Jupiter’s Icy moon Europa – which is considered one of the most promising places to find life beyond Earth – may have enough internal heat to trigger volcanic activity on the seafloor of its global ocean, according to the results of a new study.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be stealing energy from the smaller storms that careen into it on a regular basis. These dramatic interactions had previously seemed to be damaging the iconic atmospheric feature, but may instead be helping it survive.