Gaze in awe at this moody, first image of Jupiter's swirling north pole: "[I]t looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before," Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research ...

Giant vortices at Jupiter's poles, which shouldn't exist there, surprised scientists. The mystery has finally been solved thanks to the analysis of archival images from the Hubble telescope.

Auroras are one of Earth’s most mesmerizing natural phenomena, but did you know they also exist on other planets? From the ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...

Mapping the magnetic and gravity fields should also expose Jupiter's structure. NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko JunoCam has seen giant cyclones at the poles But images from JunoCam - a camera that ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter ...

Jupiter is a massive ball of gas ... Juno returned some of the first detailed looks at the planet's poles, which revealed cyclone swarms gyrating on its surface with roots that likely extend ...

Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA's Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.