Jupiter Mysteries

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  A Fourth 'Mysterious' Form Of Water That Could Form On Alien Planets Observed

  Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice VII.

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  Mysterious Interstellar Object Might Have Shifted Four Planets’ Paths, Study Finds

  A mysterious interstellar object, estimated to be eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune billions of years ago. A study suggests that this body passed remarkably close to the Sun, potentially influencing planetary trajectories. Simulations conducted by researchers indicate ...

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  Hubble Space Telescope Finds Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Mysteriously Oscillating in Size and Speed

  NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured new images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, revealing unusual behaviour in the massive storm. Known for its longevity, this storm has been raging for over 150 years. However, recent observations show the spot oscillating in both size and speed, a phenomenon that has left scientists puzzled.

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  Mystery Behind Jupiter's Great Red Spot Unveiled

  The location was 24,233 miles across in 1879, and it has gradually reduced to 8,700 miles in diameter currently, gradually taking on a rounder shape rather than an oval one.

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  NASA's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Mysterious Fifth Moon Amalthea

  NASA's Juno Spacecraft recently spotted the mysterious fifth moon of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet earlier this year.

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  Jupiter's Mysterious High-Speed Jet Stream Unveiled By Webb Space Telescope

  A wide high-speed jet stream, measuring over 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) in breadth, is positioned above Jupiter's equator, situated beyond the primary cloud layers.

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  Asteroid Psyche Maps Hint at a World of Metal and Mystery Ahead of NASA's August Mission

  NASA plans to deploy its Psyche probe to study the asteroid belt in August, an area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where remains of the early solar system circle the Sun. The probe will orbit and analyse Psyche's surface for two years to find clues about how early planetary bodies originated. Months ahead of the upcoming mission, a grou...

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  NASA's Lucy Mission To Investigate Jupiter's Mysterious Trojan Asteroids

  NASA is poised to send its first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids to glean new insights into the solar system's formation 4.5 billion years ago, the space agency said Tuesday.

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  First Giant Exoplanet Found Orbiting Extinguished Star

  Astronomers have discovered a planet the size of Jupiter closely orbiting the smouldering remains of a dead star, the first time that an intact exoplanet has been discovered travelling around a white dwarf, according to research published Wednesday.

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  NASA Says Data From Cassini Probe May Help Explain Saturn's Atmospheric Mystery

  The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants -- Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune -- are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of the great mysteries of planetary science.

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  First Findings Of NASA's Juno Mission To Unravel Jupiter Water Mystery

  NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the equator, water makes up about 0.25 per cent of the molecules in Jupiter's atmosphere - almost three times that of the Sun.

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  Mysterious 'Hot Jupiter' With Unusual Winds Discovered

  Astronomers have discovered a mysterious hot spot 930 light years from Earth on a gaseous exoplanet, at a place where they did not expect to find it - a discovery that challenges scientists' understanding of such planets found in the solar systems outside our own.

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  Solar Powered Spacecraft Juno Completes Its Eighth Flyby Of Jupiter: NASA

  NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft has successfully completed its eighth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops, the US space agency said today.

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  NASA's Juno Probe Completes Flyby of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

  It will take days for readings captured by Juno's array of cameras and other instruments to be delivered to scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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  NASA's Juno Probe to Fly Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot Today

  Juno, which earlier this month marked its first year in orbit of the gas giant, will offer "humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature."