Scientists are trying to understand how the caves formed and how life is supported in extreme environments. The post ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Science won't have to wait another 30 years to find proof. NASA's Europa Clipper mission set sail last year and should reach Jupiter and its moons in 2030, while the European Space Agency's JUICE ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our ... Credit: NASA / Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Additional atmospheric modeling helped the team next assess the likely ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar ... Laura is Popular Science’s news editor, overseeing coverage of a wide variety of subjects.

According to the new paper, which is published in the Planetary Science Journal, many astronomers have long wished that a planet existed between Mars and Jupiter to make up for the dead space there.

Hydrogen and helium separate at pressures and temperatures found within the gas giant Jupiter’s marbled exterior is pretty familiar territory, but it’s still not clear what happens far below ...