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Popular images of the asteroid belt usually show a spacecraft weaving through a crowded field of tumbling rocks. The real region between Mars and Jupiter is far less dramatic—and more…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm system wider than Earth, turning inside the planet’s cloud tops for centuries of recorded observation. It is not a solid mark on the…
Jupiter dominates the Solar System’s architecture. At about 318 times Earth’s mass and orbiting far beyond Mars, it acts as a gravitational gatekeeper, tugging on asteroids and comets that might…
Although humankind has still not developed the necessary technology to travel to the outermost parts of our solar system, we have developed throughout the year’s many spacecraft that have pushed…
Have you ever thought about Jupiter’s size and why it hasn’t become a star? If not, I suggest you open a comparison image with all the planets in the Solar…
If you look at the northwest part of the sky after sunset (southwest in the northern hemisphere), you will find one bright point of light that stands out easily in…
Jupiter doesn’t orbit the center of the Sun, and that’s not just a catchy headline—it’s a physics reality. The gas giant is so massive that the point it shares with…
A new NASA flyover animation takes viewers low over the ridged plains of Europa, a small, ice-covered moon of Jupiter long studied for what may lie beneath its surface. The…