The Most Spectacular Images From Juno’s Latest Close Flyby of Jupiter
Jupiter PJ 66 27 | Credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently made its 66th flyby, …
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Can Jupiter’s moon with water ocean support life? NASA spacecraft begins 5.5-yr voyage to find out
Bengaluru: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched a space mission that is going on a 2.9 billion kilometre trip to one of Jupiter’s moons. The Europa Clipper …
The Hunt for Life on Europa Is About to Kick Up a Gear
If we’re going to find life on another world, Europa might just be our best bet. We think this icy moon of Jupiter has an ocean of water beneath its …
How to See the Conjunction Between Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. August has delivered many spectacular sights in the night sky: a supermoon, meteor showers, and supercharged …
New Juno Images Show Volcanic Activity on Jupiter’s Moon, Io
The Io image that NASA released alongside news of the successful flyby on February 3, 2024. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Over the weekend, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made another close flyby of …
Juno Captures Incredible Image of Jupiter’s Moon Io During Closest Flyby
A color view of Jupiter’s moon Io, captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on December 30, 2023. Additional images from the flyby are available on the Juno mission website. | Credits: …
The Tantalizing Mystery of the Solar System’s Hidden Oceans
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And yet, defiantly, these alien seas remain liquid. A Mirror-Wrapped Ocean Scientists suspect that a handful of moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn—and maybe even some spinning around Uranus and Neptune—harbor …
How to see Jupiter from the Bay Area tonight
An illustration of Jupiter. SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images/Science Photo Libra As dusk falls Thursday, the fifth planet from the sun is expected to move within just five degrees of the …
NASA Spacecraft’s First Photo of an Asteroid Reveals a Surprise
This is the first image that NASA released from the Lucy spacecraft’s first-ever asteroid encounter, which occurred on November 1, 2023. The larger asteroid, Dinkinesh, was seen by the Lucy …
A wild show that kept the Bay Area up all night
Bob Wilkins on the set of “Creature Features” at KCRA in Sacramento. Courtesy of Tom Wyrsch Late one night in January 1971, a 9-year-old August Ragone sat in the dark …