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Smelliest planets in and around our solar system
Have you ever wondered if the seemingly endless vacuum of space had a smell? The answer to this que…
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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…
PTI
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A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers finally think they know why
"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers thi…
Ellyn Lapointe
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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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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor on hot, Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant star
NASA's new telescope is already peering into the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. This …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's aurora triggered a planet-wide heat wave, a map animation reveals, solving a mystery that's puzzled scientists
A heat wave on Jupiter helped astronomers solve the planet's "energy crisis" mystery. Watch the vid…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New images reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its smaller counterpart, Red Spot Jr., in stunning detail
Two telescopes worked together to capture jaw-dropping images of Jupiter through different types of…
Aylin Woodward
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In a single month, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen the oldest galaxies, messy cosmic collisions, and a hot gas planet's atmosphere
In the month since the space telescope released its first batch of images, it's deluged astronomers…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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What would happen if humans tried to land on Jupiter
At 13,000 miles down, you reach Jupiter's innermost layer. Here the pressure is 2 million times str…
Gene Kim,Jessica Orwig
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Scalding hot temperatures above the solar system's largest storm might solve a longstanding mystery about Jupiter
"A good analogy for this is it's pretty much like stirring a cup of coffee with a spoon," O'Donoghu…
Ali Sundermier
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Jupiter is humongous, and this photo of its hellish moon proves it
Instead of generating electricity using red-hot plutonium-238, which is extremely limited in supply…
Dave Mosher
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The sky is (literally) falling on Jupiter's most hellish moon
You're a Jovian lunar explorer in the year 2200. You've piloted your lander to the surface of Io, t…
Rafi Letzter
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NASA has photographed a pearly white storm on Jupiter that's nearly as big as Earth
The most famous of these is the mysterious Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as Earth that has …
Kevin Loria,Dave Mosher
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These weird animals make scientists think that life could thrive on one of Jupiter's moons
Only first discovered in 2012, the shrimp are not well understood. But last November, a team of sci…
Jessica Orwig
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Here's what aliens living on Jupiter's beautiful moon Europa might look like
Last November, a team of scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory studied one of the world'…
Jessica Orwig
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A new discovery inside Jupiter's Great Red Spot could solve a mystery that's plagued scientists for decades
Astrophysicists recently discovered that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is extremely hot. This new discov…