This close-up view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1 ... cold and remarkably clear atmosphere. To date, Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited the distant, gaseous giant.

But when Voyager ... like Jupiter. Or so they thought. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each ...

As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter has a magnetic ... and deliver a probe to explore the atmosphere. Meanwhile, the long-lived Voyager 2 has continued its journey and is currently ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...

In April of 1978, barely a year before its scheduled encounter with Jupiter, the primary S-band receiver on Voyager 2 was shut down by fault-protection algorithms on the spacecraft that failed to ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

They almost 'share' an orbit at an altitude of just under 130,000 kilometres above Jupiter's atmosphere. Within Jupiter's rings ... was discovered during the flybys of the two Voyager spacecraft in ...

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...

“The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...

The data from the Webb Space Telescope also enabled measurements of the temperature at the top of Neptune's atmosphere for the first time since Voyager 2's flyby. Those results may point to why ...