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.

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 ...

An artificially colored view of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red Spot, which appears blue, another oval feature can be seen in the brown haze at Jupiter's south pole.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, these planets were thought to accrete or eject any ...

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.