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Darkest Known Exoplanet: Alien World Is Blacker Than Coal
August 11, 2011 — Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet -- a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight ... > full story -
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter
August 5, 2011 — NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug. 5, 2011 to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter. Juno's detailed study of the largest planet ... > full story -
Simulated Atmosphere Research to Help NASA Interpret Data from Juno Mission to Jupiter
August 3, 2011 — In August of 2016, when NASA's Juno Mission begins sending back information about the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, research done by engineers using a 2,400-pound pressure vessel will help ... > full story -
Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def
August 2, 2011 — When it comes to magnetic fields, Jupiter is the ultimate muscle car. It's endowed with the biggest, brawniest field of any planet in the solar system, powered by a monster engine under the ... > full story -
Mission to Jupiter: Gas Giant May Hold Keys to Understanding Solar System Formation, Evolution
August 1, 2011 — NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter is slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The primary goal of the mission is to understand the origin and evolution of the massive gas planet. ... > full story -
Exoplanet Aurora: An out-of-This-World Sight
July 21, 2011 — Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living ... > full story -
New Planets Feature Young Star and Twin Neptunes
July 14, 2011 — Scientists have discovered 10 new planets. Amongst them is one orbiting a star perhaps only a few tens of million years old, twin Neptune-sized planets, and a rare Saturn-like ... > full story -
Clocking Neptune's Spin by Tracking Atmospheric Features
June 30, 2011 — By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets in our ... > full story -
Phobos Slips Past Jupiter
June 17, 2011 — Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special maneuver to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images of this rare event are now ... > full story -
When Jupiter Was in the Position of Mars
June 15, 2011 — A new scenario describing a key step in the formation of the solar system has been proposed by a French-American collaboration. According to this model, Jupiter migrated towards the Sun to the ... > full story
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