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Earth to Have Closest Encounter With Jupiter Until 2022
September 20, 2010 — Been outside at midnight lately? There's something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade -- and it is ... > full story -
Amateur Astronomers Open Potential Lab in Outer Space for Planetary Scientists, Researcher Says
September 10, 2010 — Two amateur astronomers who independently observed and videotaped an asteroid striking the giant planet Jupiter on June 3 have opened the possibility, in effect, of a giant research lab in space for ... > full story -
Caught in the Act: Fireballs Light Up Jupiter
September 9, 2010 — Amateur astronomers working with professional astronomers have spotted two fireballs lighting up Jupiter's atmosphere this summer, marking the first time Earth-based telescopes have captured ... > full story -
Asteroid Found in Gravitational 'Dead Zone' Near Neptune
August 12, 2010 — There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable, called Lagrangian points. Trojan asteroids have been ... > full story -
Juno Spacecraft Armored Up to Go to Jupiter
July 13, 2010 — NASA's Juno spacecraft will be forging ahead into a treacherous environment at Jupiter with more radiation than any other place NASA has ever sent a spacecraft, except the sun. In a specially ... > full story -
First Superstorm on Exoplanet Detected
June 23, 2010 — Astronomers have measured a superstorm for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, the well-studied "hot Jupiter" HD209458b. The very high-precision observations of carbon monoxide gas show ... > full story -
Six New Planets Discovered
June 21, 2010 — Scientists have discovered six diverse new planets, from 'shrunken-Saturns' to 'bloated hot Jupiters', as well a rare brown dwarf with 60 times the mass of ... > full story -
Hubble Scrutinizes Site of Mysterious Flash and Missing Cloud Belt on Jupiter
June 16, 2010 — New and detailed observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided insights into two recent events on Jupiter: the mysterious flash of light seen on June 3 and the recent ... > full story -
Weird Orbits of Neighbors Can Make 'Habitable' Planets Not So Habitable
May 24, 2010 — New findings from computer modeling indicate some exoplanets might fluctuate between being habitable and being inhospitable to life because of forces exerted by giant neighbors with eccentric ... > full story -
Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet
May 21, 2010 — The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument on ... > full story
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