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Surprise! Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may not have a fully formed core
By Charles Q. Choi published
The core of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa might have formed billions of years after the rest of it did, if indeed it has formed at all, a new study finds.
Friendless 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets may not be so lonely after all
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
How hot Jupiters form and evolve is one of the oldest questions in exoplanet research.
New 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet has a weird orbit and another planet may be to blame
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have used NASA's TESS telescope to discover a new 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet with a strange orbit.
Jupiter's moons: Facts about the many moons of the Jovian system
By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated
Reference Explore Jupiter's 95 moons including the infamous Galilean satellites and the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede.
A poem for Europa Clipper: US Poet Laureate Ada Limón reveals ode to fly on NASA Jupiter moon mission
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
"It is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water..." Those words, by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, are part of an ode flying on NASA's Europa Clipper.
Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe finishes deploying its instruments
By Andrew Jones published
Europe's JUICE spacecraft is now in its full flight configuration, six weeks after the flagship mission launched for Jupiter.
Why does Jupiter change its stripes? Scientists may finally have the answer
By Stefanie Waldek published
Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, an international team has correlated the variations in Jupiter's bands to changes in the planet's magnetic field.
Jupiter's lightning is strikingly similar to Earth's
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted short bursts that make up lightning bolts on Jupiter, showing that Jovian lightning works in much the same way as it does on Earth.
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