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Stunning video captures a rare Jupiter triple-eclipse: 3 large moons casting their shadows over the planet
Moons pass between Jupiter and Earth all the time, but it's rare that three of them do it at once. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A mesmerizing NASA video lets you ride with the Juno spacecraft as it flies by Jupiter and its largest moon
Juno flew within 645 miles of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, last week - the closest any spacecr…
Aria Bendix
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NASA's Juno probe at Jupiter beamed back close-up photos of the planet's largest moon, Ganymede, for the first time in 2 decades
Juno recently zipped past Ganymede and snapped a stunning portrait of the moon. NASA expects more c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapor on Jupiter's ocean moon Ganymede for the first time
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmospher…
Kelly McLaughlin
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New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth
NASA's Juno spacecraft flew extremely close to Jupiter's eruptive moon Io and took some stunning ph…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Scientists launch JUICE mission to explore Jupiter's icy moons
Could we discover conditions necessary for life outside the Earth in the solar system? This is one …
PTI
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Mesmerizing new NASA image shows the lava on one of Jupiter's moons that helps form the massive planet's auroras
NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped an infrared picture of Jupiter's moon Io, which is home to hundreds …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Side-by-side images from flybys of Europa show close-up views of Jupiter's icy moon over 20 years
During Thursday's flyby, NASA's Juno probe made important observations about Europa, a leading cand…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Hubble telescope once again enters safe mode, science operations shut
Science operations have been once again shut on the iconic Hubble telescope as the ageing observato…
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Space science missions to look forward to in 2022
There’s always something big to look forward to in space and 2022 has some major launches planne…
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An incredible video shows what we would see if the planets replaced the moon. But that would turn Earth into a volcanic hellscape.
"We could expect a similar scenario on Earth. Initially, Earth's mantle and crust would be gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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There's something mysterious about Jupiter's many moons
The Galilean moons are still the largest, and probably the coolest, of Jupiter's moons. I…
Meghan Bartels
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These ocean worlds reveal just how little water we have on Earth
A moon of Jupiter called Europa, for example, which is roughly the size of our own moon, likely hid…
Dave Mosher,Skye Gould
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Europe just invested over $380 million in an alien-hunting space mission to Jupiter
Between these two spacecrafts, we'll learn more about these watery moons than we ever knew before. …
Jessica Orwig
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This amazing video shows what it's like to zoom through space on NASA's daredevil Jupiter probe
Once the mission ends, however, Juno won't live on as a relic of humanity's exploration. To protect…
Dave Mosher
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A 'planet parade' will greet stargazers early Thursday morning - Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto will all line up
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto will all be lined up in the pre-dawn sky the morning of March 8, w…
Kevin Loria
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If you're going crazy waiting for the first Pluto flyby photos, here's what they'll look like
Unfortunately, it's going to take 9 months or possibly up to 16 months to send all of that data bac…
Dave Mosher
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NASA put together this awesome movie of Juno approaching Jupiter and its moons
"Galileo observed these moons to change position with respect to Jupiter over the course of a few n…
Ali Sundermier
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Pluto might be hiding a vast liquid ocean beneath its icy surface
"Pluto's surface consists of a layer of so-called volatile ices, including nitrogen, methane, and C…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA's next $1 billion space mission will be an alien-hunting nuclear helicopter that flies around Saturn's icy moon Titan
In short, the device converts heat energy into electricity. The beating heart of an RTG is a radioa…