World’s Strangest

Last year NASA and the European Space Agency announced plans for a joint effort to seek out life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Scientists believe Europa c…

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is the fastest manmade object ever built, taking only a year to move beyond Jupiter following its launch. Almost fo…

The Murphy Family home in Jupiter, Florida features a child’s bed shaped like a dinosaur mouth. Bonnie Murphy, a muralist, did the painting and her husband did the carpentry. Can you imagine anything more soothing? Link via Geekologie | Photo: 3 Murphys

A new mechanism devised to explain how icy bodies from the Oort cloud get past Jupiter and Saturn has revealed that it is unlikely that large come…

Sarah Zielinski writes in The Smithsonian that Jupiter, as the largest planet in our solar system, occasionally pulls comets into its orbit. Sometimes, as with comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994 (pictured), Jupiter’s gravity will even pull a comet into a direct impact. Zielinsky writes: Astronomers from Japan and Northern Ireland, presenting their findings today at the [...]

NASA are investing over four billion dollars over the next decade to developing and launching a mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in a bid to d…