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' ...

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 ...

As Southwest Research Institute adds to its space exploration resume with a six-year mission to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s moons, an investigator on the project says it’s also a hunt ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — As part of the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. "Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for ...

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

The JUICE mission is at the very beginning of its eight-year journey to Jupiter and its moons, but one of its science instruments is already misbehaving. The European Space Agency’s Jovian probe is ...

In about eight years, a gold tubular instrument will orbit around Jupiter on a spacecraft, and will repeatedly fly by a cloud of particles ejected from the surface of Europa — one of Jupiter’s moons — ...

'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 ...