An instrument designed to study exoplanets has turned its focus to our own cosmic neighborhood to measure Jupiter's wind speeds. "The exploratory application of this method with a 'top of the range' ...

A space instrument created to try and find out whether there’s life beyond Earth will launch this month after being designed and built by a team at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Surface Dust ...

Everything about Jupiter is extreme. The planet is home to gigantic polar cyclones bigger than Australia, fierce jet streams, ...

NASA’s partnership in a future European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Jupiter and its moons has cleared a key milestone, moving from preliminary instrument design to implementation phase. Designed to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. "Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for ...

The Swedish-led satellite instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) will help researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to understand how three of Jupiter’s icy moons are ...

IOWA CITY - As Iowans on the Fourth of July direct their gaze skyward, University of Iowa researcher Bill Kurth will be concentrating on the heavens for a different reason. 'When you're watching the ...

'This work affirms the feasibility of systematically monitoring the most distant atmospheres on gaseous planets.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...