Jupiter

Four giant planets around young star discovered

The star is just two million years old -- a ‘toddler’ in astronomical terms -- and is surrounded by a huge disc of dust and ice.

Ice blades cover Jupiter's moon Europa: Study

The potentially life-supporting Europa has been studied by NASA, whose work has become more difficult due to the ice towers, Xinhua news agency reported.

NASA's Juno probe captures elusive 'brown barge' on Jupiter

Brown barges are cyclonic regions that usually lie within Jupiter's dark North Equatorial Belt, although they are sometimes found in the similarly dark South Equatorial Belt as well.  

Water spotted at Jupiter's Great Red Spot, says NASA

The data collected will supplement the information NASA's Juno spacecraft is gathering. The spacecraft circles the planet from north to south once every 53 days.

Signs of water inside Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, says NASA

The Great Red Spot is full of dense clouds, which makes it hard for electromagnetic energy to escape and teach astronomers anything about the chemistry within.

Jupiter glows like a jewel in these latest images sent by NASA’s Juno spacecraft

Juno probe regularly sends amazing photos of the largest planet of the solar system, but the recent pictures reveal how tumultuous and hostile the atmosphere of a planet can be.

Alien life on Jupiter's Moon Europa? Study reveals it has Earth-like tectonic plates

Scientists are of the opinion that this may have important implications for the possibility of life in the ocean beneath the moon's surface.

Scientists discover ‘Hot Jupiter’ with deadly stratosphere located 325 light-years from Earth

The new study suggests that the planet -- that orbits very close to its host star, has an unusual composition. The researchers looked at data collected for WASP-18b as part of a survey to find exoplanets with stratospheres.

Want to see how a raging storm on Jupiter looks like? Here's an unbelievable NASA photograph

The image was taken on October 24, when the spacecraft was about 10,108 kilometres away from the tops of the clouds of Jupiter.

NASA’s ‘Hubble’ takes close-up portrait of Jupiter (Pic inside)

Life spotted? NASA's Hubble telescope finds water vapour plumes on Jupiter's largest moon Europa ( Video )

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted water vapour plumes erupting off the surface on Jupiter's moon Europa, in a possible evidence of the existence of life there. Releasing new images captured from the Hubble

Juno probe set to make closest approach to Jupiter tomorrow; expect surprises, says NASA

NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its closest approach to Jupiter on Saturday. As per NASA, at the moment of closest approach, Juno will be about 2,500 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds and traveling

NASA's Juno all set to reach the most distant point in its orbit of Jupiter

Five years after departing from Earth, and month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is all set to reach the farthest point in its orbit for the first time on Sunday. The

Google Doodle celebrates NASA spacecraft Juno's successful arrival in Jupiter's orbit

Washington: NASA's Juno probe successfully entered the orbit of our solar system's largest planetary inhabitant after after a five-year, 1.4 billion-mile voyage. This historic moment has been marked with a special Google Doodle that says

NASA’s Juno spacecraft creates history, successfully enters Jupiter’s orbit

NASA celebrated a key triumph on Tuesday as its Rs 7,400 crore unnamed Juno spacecraft entered the orbit around Jupiter after a five-year voyage in order to explore the giant planet.

Astronomers discover Jupiter-like planet that orbits two Suns

A team of astronomers led by the team from Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland have used data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to identify a huge planet, almost the size of Jupiter, that orbits two Suns simultaneously.

Huge and powerful: New Jupiter-like planet can ‘spin’ its parent stars, claims research

New York: There is an evidence that a massive exoplanet a “hot Jupiter” is circling around its nearest satellite at such a high speed that it’s moving or ‘spinning up’ its nearby star with its

Saturn and Jupiter started off as tiny pebbles: Study

Washington:  Gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter may have been built by centimetre-sized pebbles that formed 4.5 billion years ago from dust and ice swirling around the newborn Sun, a new study suggests.Researchers have

Planet three times as large as Jupiter discovered

Santiago:  Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto has discovered a planet three times as large as Jupiter orbiting a red giant star larger than the Sun and located some 290 million light years from Earth.A doctoral student

Scientists to hunt for alien life on Jupiter moons

London: After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, media reports said.Earlier this week, the European