Subscribe now

Jupiter

Space

Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io

In between two spacecraft visiting Jupiter’s moon Io, a volcano spreading material over hundreds of kilometres has appeared

News

Subscriber-only

Side by side comparison of a Juno image from February 2024 and a Galileo image from 1997, revealing a new volcano

Space

Huge asteroid impact may have knocked over Jupiter's largest moon

News

Free

Video

Inside NASA's lab exploring conditions for life on other worlds

Video

Free

In JPL’s Origins and Habitability Lab, researchers use a sealed chamber to conduct experiments free of oxygen in an effort to replicate the chemistry of early Earth. Shown from left are lab co-lead Laurie Barge and researchers Jessica Weber and Laura Rodriguez.
Europa Clipper: Journey to an Ocean

Space

Why NASA is sending a probe to Europa – and what it’s looking for

Features

Subscriber-only

On 19?20 August 2024, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will achieve a world first: using the gravity of the Moon and then Earth to bend its path through space, bringing it one step closer to Jupiter.

Space

The JUICE spacecraft may be visible on a near-Earth flyby next week

News

Free

Jupiter as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft

Space

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may have disappeared and reformed

News

Subscriber-only

Space

Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years

News

Free

See the messages NASA is sending to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa

Space

See the messages NASA is sending to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa

Regulars

Free

NASA's mission to Europa isn't meant to find alien life - but it could

Space

NASA's mission to Europa isn't meant to find alien life - but it could

News

Free

vortices on Jupiter

Physics

Jupiter’s stormy surface replicated in lab

By rotating a tank of water at 75 revolutions per minute, it’s possible to replicate some of the stunning, swirling patterns on Jupiter’s surface

News

Subscriber-only

Space

We may have found a crater on Jupiter’s moon Io for the first time

News

Space

How Jupiter's powerful storms compare to weather on hot Jupiters

News

Subscriber-only

Space

Stunning photo of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is our best in decades

News

Free

Juice launch 14/04/2023 ESA?s latest interplanetary mission, Juice, lifted off on an?Ariane 5 rocket?from?Europe?s Spaceport?in French 09:14 local time/14:14CEST on 14 April 2023 to begin its eight-year journey to Jupiter, where it will study in detail the gas giant planet?s three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Juice ? Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ??is humankind?s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will?characterise Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter?s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe. Following launch, Juice will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, arriving in July 2031 with the aid of momentum and direction gained from four gravity-assist fly-bys of the Earth-Moon system, Venus and, twice, Earth. Flight VA260 is the final Ariane 5 flight to carry an ESA mission to space.

Space

How the JUICE mission will look for habitability on Jupiter's moons

Features

Subscriber-only