Jupiter, the giant of our solar system, is home to a variety of fascinating phenomena. Among these, the Great Red Spot (GRS) ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

Experts have unveiled details of SIMP 0136, a floating planetary mass thought to be around 20 light-years away from the Earth ...

NASA engineer Rayme Traub, from Sherrard, will discuss his scientific contributions as part of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s event ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, Europa has a smooth, icy surface crisscrossed by a ...

“It was a race to the finish line,” said Madsen. Europa Clipper’s electronics are protected from Jupiter’s harsh radiation environment within a specially-designed vault. Credit: NASA/JPL ...

One of the biggest challenges NASA scientists had to solve before launching the probe was determining how to protect the probe from Jupiter’s intense radiation, Traub said. To get close to ...

The mission already carries challenges of sending a satellite 1.8 billion miles in outer space, but the true test comes from the radiation given off by Jupiter and its moons. The space between ...

The spacecraft will encounter extreme radiation near Europa ... gravitational assists from Earth and Mars to slingshot toward Jupiter, a technique that conserves fuel and helps the spacecraft ...

134, No. 1038 (2022 August), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) Jupiter’s decimeter-wavelength flux density is dominated by synchrotron emission from magnetically trapped ∼5–50 MeV electrons in the radiation belts.