When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27 ... NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come from just the first of 36 flybys that ...

Stargazers can see the Geminid and Ursid meteor shower this month to close out 2024. It’s been an action-packed year for ...

“We’ve got instruments that will look at the atmosphere of Jupiter and its aurora, so in some ways JUICE will cover a broader spectrum of science—it’s not just for scientists interested in ...

Planetary scientists have issued a tornado warning for Jupiter, with the discovery that magnetic vortices twisting down from ...

Nov. 26, 2024 — Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A new study shows that these dark UV ovals are common ...

For there to be a transitory phenomenon such as the dark ovals appearing at Jupiter's poles strongly suggested that it was connected to the planet's magnetic field, just like the aurora is.