Study helps solve mystery under Jupiter’s coloured bands

Sydney, Aug 11 (IBNS): Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in a new study on the interaction between atmospheres and magnetic fields.

Water is destroyed, then reborn in ultrahot Jupiters

Washington, Aug 10 (IBNS): Imagine a place where the weather forecast is always the same: scorching temperatures, relentlessly sunny, and with absolutely zero chance of rain. This hellish scenario exists on the permanent daysides of a type of planet found outside our solar system dubbed an "ultrahot Jupiter." These worlds orbit extremely close to their stars, with one side of the planet permanently facing the star.

Is Mars’ soil too dry to sustain life?

Washington, July 25 (IBNS): Life as we know it needs water to thrive. Even so, we see life persist in the driest environments on Earth. But how dry is too dry?

Jupiter's great red spot getting taller as it shrinks, NASA team finds

Washington, Mar 14 (IBNS): Though once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half. Nobody is sure how long the storm will continue to contract or whether it will disappear altogether.

NASA's Juno probes the depths of Jupiter's great red spot

Washington, Dec 12 (IBNS): Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds.

A whole new Jupiter: First science results from NASA’s Juno mission

Washington, May 26 (IBNS): Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.

NASA approves instruments for ESA’s ‘JUICE’ Mission to Jupiter System

Washington, Apr 16 (IBNS): NASA’s partnership in a future European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Jupiter and its moons has cleared a key milestone, moving from preliminary instrument design to implementation phase.

Cloudy nights, sunny days on distant hot Jupiters

Washington, Oct 19 (IBNS): The weather forecast for faraway, blistering planets called "hot Jupiters" might go something like this: Cloudy nights and sunny days, with a high of 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1,300 degrees Celsius, or 1,600 Kelvin).

NASA's hubble spots possible water plumes erupting on Jupiter's Moon Europa

Washington Sept 27 (IBNS): Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Jupiter's North Pole unlike anything encountered in Solar System

California, Sept 3 (IBNS): NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, taken during the spacecraft’s first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system’s gas-giant planets.

NASA's Juno successfully completes Jupiter flyby

California, Aug 28 (IBNS): NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter on Saturday.

NASA's Juno to soar closest to Jupiter this Saturday

Washington, Aug 27 (IBNS): This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission.

Juno enters orbit around Jupiter

California, July 5 (IBNS) NASA’s Juno mission has completed its main engine burn and entered orbit around Jupiter. Watch the live NASA news briefing at 1 a.m. EDT for more information.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft getting close to Jupiter

Washington, July 2 (IBNS) NASA's Juno mission, launched nearly five years ago, will soon reach its final destination: the most massive planet in our solar system, Jupiter. On the evening of July 4, at roughly 9 p.m. PDT (12 a.m. EDT, July 5), the spacecraft will complete a burn of its main engine, placing it in orbit around the king of planets.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft enters Jupiter's magnetic field

Washington, July 1 (IBNS) NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has entered the planet's magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what's going on inside Jupiter.