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Study: Biological Amino Acids Could Survive in Near-Surface Ices of Europa and Enceladus

By News Staff July 18, 2024

Europa and Enceladus are key targets to search for evidence of alien life in our Solar System. However, the surface and shallow subsurface of these airless icy moons are constantly…

Juno Spots ‘Hot Rings’ on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io

By News Staff June 27, 2024

These bright (hot) ‘thermal rings’ are a common phenomenon, and they are indicative of active lava lakes, according to a new analysis of data from the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper…

Study: Active, Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems on Small Ocean Worlds Could Support Life

By News Staff June 25, 2024

Ocean worlds are planetary bodies that have a liquid ocean, often under an icy shell or within the rocky interior. In our own Solar System, several moons of Jupiter and…

Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones are Fueled by Processes Similar to Those Acting on Earth: Study

By News Staff June 10, 2024

Planetary scientists first made the connection between Earth and Jupiter in 2018 when they noticed a striking similarity between images of Jupiter’s huge cyclones and the ocean turbulence. In 2022,…

Amalthea: Juno Captures Solar System’s Reddest Object

By News Staff May 15, 2024

NASA’s Juno orbiter captured these views of the tiny, red moon Amalthea and its parent planet and during a close flyby on March 7, 2024. These views of Jupiter, captured…

Study: Jupiter’s Moon Io Has Been Volcanically Active for All of Its History

By News Staff April 24, 2024

Sulfur and chlorine isotopes in Io’s atmosphere indicate that it has been volcanically active for the entire 4.57 billion-year history of the Solar System. This global view of Io was…

NASA’s Juno Mission Provides Close-Ups of Intriguing Features on Io

By News Staff April 19, 2024

In December 2023 and February 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made extremely close flybys of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, getting within about 1,500 km (930 miles) of the surface and obtaining…

NASA Scientists Unveil Design for Europa Clipper’s ‘Golden Record’

By News Staff March 12, 2024

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a triangular metal plate with a special message when it launches in October 2024 and heads toward Jupiter’s moon Europa. This side of a…

Europa Produces Less Oxygen than Previously Thought

By News Staff March 4, 2024

Using data from the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to…

NASA’s Juno Orbiter Captures Stunning Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io

By Natali Anderson February 9, 2024

On February 3, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a second close flyby of Io, the fifth of Jupiter’s moons and the third largest. Like the previous flyby on December 30,…