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'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter
March 14, 2013 — In the swirling canopy of Jupiter's atmosphere, cloudless patches are so exceptional that the big ones get the special name "hot spots." Exactly how these clearings form and why they're only found ... > full story -
Modeling Jupiter and Saturn's Possible Origins
March 5, 2013 — New theoretical modeling provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter and Saturn -- might have formed and ... > full story -
Jupiter's Icy Moon: Window Into Europa's Ocean Lies Right at the Surface
March 5, 2013 — If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath, according to astronomers. Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet that ... > full story -
NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission
February 21, 2013 — NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moons are thought to harbor vast ... > full story -
NASA's Cassini Watches Saturn Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
January 31, 2013 — Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous ... > full story -
New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System
January 21, 2013 — Planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras – similar to Earth’s Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar ... > full story -
Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars
January 11, 2013 — Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story -
Life Possible on Extrasolar Moons
January 10, 2013 — In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that ... > full story -
Fifteen New Planets Hint at 'Traffic Jam' of Moons in Habitable Zone
January 7, 2013 — Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars. Added to the 19 similar planets already discovered in habitable ... > full story -
Planet Rings Could Be Behind the Formation of Solar System Satellites
December 4, 2012 — Two researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our solar system were formed out of planet rings. The model, the only one of its ... > full story
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