An instrument designed to study exoplanets has turned its focus to our own cosmic neighborhood to measure Jupiter's wind speeds. "The exploratory application of this method with a 'top of the range' ...

The Swedish-led satellite instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) will help researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to understand how three of Jupiter’s icy moons are ...

NASA’s partnership in a future European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Jupiter and its moons has cleared a key milestone, moving from preliminary instrument design to implementation phase. Designed to ...

Everything about Jupiter is extreme. The planet is home to gigantic polar cyclones bigger than Australia, fierce jet streams, ...

A space instrument created to try and find out whether there’s life beyond Earth will launch this month after being designed and built by a team at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Surface Dust ...

Taking a major step toward an eventual robotic mission to Europa, a moon of Jupiter believed to harbor ice-locked lakes and a vast sub-surface ocean, NASA has selected nine sophisticated instruments ...

The UVS instrument recorded spatial information produced by hydrogen atoms radiating from the Earth. In the background a number of individual stars are identified along with the Pleiades star cluster.

IOWA CITY - As Iowans on the Fourth of July direct their gaze skyward, University of Iowa researcher Bill Kurth will be concentrating on the heavens for a different reason. 'When you're watching the ...

An ambitious European mission that will launch a robotic probe to explore Jupiter's icy moons in 2022 has got its science gear. The European Space Agency has picked 11 instruments for the planned ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is sending JUICE to Jupiter in 2022. Rather than some kind of interplanetary beverage delivery, JUICE stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) and is the first ...

'This work affirms the feasibility of systematically monitoring the most distant atmospheres on gaseous planets.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...