NASA’s Juno spacecraft has reshaped key ideas about Jupiter. Data collected during the probe’s polar orbits reveal a planet with jet streams plunging thousands of kilometers deep, a lopsided magnetic ...
Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New ...
Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Since entering ...
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, as well as other gas giants ...
Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...