There is an open question about why the Ulysses mission, which flew past Jupiter in 1992, didn’t detect any X-rays. Now, a new paper using NASA’s NuSTAR observatory has solved this long-term ...

The X-ray emission at Jupiter’s south pole consistently pulsed every 11 minutes, but the X-rays seen from the north pole were erratic, increasing and decreasing in brightness — seemingly ...

These composite images show Jupiter and its aurora during and after a CME’s arrival at Jupiter in October 2011. In these images, X-ray data from Chandra (purple) have been overlaid on an optical ...

Jupiter is absolutely beaming with X-ray light. Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high frequency X-rays emanating from the planet, the highest energy ...

NASA does have plans, however, to land astronauts on Mars as early as the 2030s, but not only is the Red Planet much closer to us than Jupiter, it’s also of similar size and composition as Earth.

The launch of Jupiter 3 can be viewed live later tonight via the YouTube link above, or the SpaceX website. It is scheduled to launch at 11:04pm ET, with coverage beginning approximately 15 ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life.

King Jupiter X, David Mitchell Villneuve, and Queen Juno X, Dr. Terrie Rosalyn Thomas, reigned over the Krewe of Jupiter & Juno’s Diamond Jubilee on Jan. 12 at the Baton ...