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JUPITER NEWS
Scientists spot signs of a liquid water ocean under Europa’s surface ice
July 23, 2025 9:19 am
Jupiter's moon Europa, which was often pictured as a still, silent shell may be home to a giant liquid water ocean that holds twice as much water as Earth.
UPSC Current Affairs Pointers of the past week | October 14 to October 20, 2024
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Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter, study finds
August 16, 2024 1:31 am
The asteroid struck the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, creating the Chicxulub crater, a 112-mile-wide, 12-mile-deep scar.
Mars and Jupiter get won't get this close again until 2033
August 11, 2024 4:17 pm
They’ll be so close Wednesday, at least from our perspective, that just a sliver of moon could fit between them.
Europe’s JUICE probe set for close encounter with Earth before journey to Jupiter
July 29, 2024 1:49 am
Launched in April 2023, JUICE is Europe’s first mission to Jupiter, tasked with studying the planet and its largest moons.
NASA telescope spots a super Jupiter that takes over a century to go around its star
July 24, 2024 10:27 pm
The planet is roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with six times the mass. Its atmosphere is also rich in hydrogen like Jupiter's.
Signs of life on Jupiter's and Saturn's moons could exist near surfaces, NASA finds
July 22, 2024 5:11 pm
Here’s some good news for future space missions meant to search for signs of alien life.
Send your name to Jupiter’s moon Europa before time runs out: Here's how
December 29, 2023 10:50 am
Here is how you can send your name on a NASA mission that will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europe and look for signs of life.
Watch this space: Dinkinesh’s space twin and how Jupiter could have killed Earth
November 06, 2023 8:24 am
In the weeks leading up to Lucy’s encounter with Dinkinesh, teams at NASA had begun to have questions about whether Dinkinesh is a single binary system. This is because the asteroid’s brightness seemed to be changing over time.
Giant planets like Jupiter can stop life on Earth-like neighbours
November 05, 2023 8:31 am
A new study has shown that gas giants in distant planetary systems can destroy life in Earth. This means that Jupiter is a black sheep as far as gas giants go since it protects life on Earth.
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