14 April 2023
The JUICE mission to explore three of Jupiter’s icy moons and examine whether they have the right conditions for life is launching on 14 April. Watch the live launch coverage here
11 April 2023
Jupiter’s icy moons are thought to host buried oceans that could have the right conditions for life, and the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission is about to go find out if they do
1 March 2023
The solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, and its brightest planet, Venus, will appear to touch in the sky tonight – here’s why
22 August 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of Jupiter, showing off its bright hazes, tenuous rings and auroras with the hopes of understanding the entire system better
12 July 2022
On top of the first high-resolution science images that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team has just released, there was also a picture of Jupiter hidden in a document about telescope testing
16 June 2022
Astronomers spotted a huge space rock slamming into Jupiter, creating a blast of light and energy equivalent to 2 million tonnes of TNT – the brightest such event since 1994
28 October 2021
We only had a skin-deep look at Jupiter before the Juno spacecraft began orbiting the planet in 2016 and the measurements the NASA mission has taken reveal unexpected information about its deep interior
9 July 2021
Jupiter blasts out strange X-ray flares that have gone unexplained for decades, and the mystery has now been solved by vibrations in the planet’s magnetic field
29 June 2021
The mix of gases that make up Jupiter’s atmosphere have long puzzled astronomers, but now it seems the giant planet’s shadowy birthplace may be responsible
7 June 2021
NASA took pictures of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now it has returned for the first time in over two decades with the Juno mission
