New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...

Jupiter's radius is now estimated to be about 5 miles smaller than previously thought, while the distance from pole to pole is about 15 miles less.

Images captured in 2023 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of the massive aurora lights on Jupiter reveal unexpected ...

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.

NASA scientists spotted a weird green flash on Jupiter — a bright, unexpected burst of green light that shouldn’t be there ...

On Feb. 1, the Snow Moon will rise alongside some of winter's brightest stars after drifting past Jupiter ...

Jupiter’s nights are anything but dark. Recent images from a fleet of NASA spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a giant world whose unlit hemisphere crackles with lightning, glows with ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Launched by NASA in August 2011, the spacecraft Juno is set to arrive at Jupiter on July 4. Currently cartwheeling through space, once Juno gets close enough to Jupiter, it will ...

Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far greater density.

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." ...

A mission to Jupiter launched over a decade ago is about to complete its work with a fiery plunge into the planet’s depths sometime this month. NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, ...