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(125 diggs) Mysteries of Jupiter's Great Red Spot --The Oldest Storm in the Galaxy? Jupiter, the most massive planet in our solar system — with dozens of moons and an enormous magnetic field — resembles a star in composition, but it did not grow big enough to ignite. The planet’s swirling cloud stripes are broken by storms, the most massive being the Great Red Spot, which has raged for hundreds of years. New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which has...

(137 diggs) GRAIL Heading to the Moon With MoonKAM This morning, NASA launched the GRAIL mission to the Moon. The GRAIL mission is going to map the gravitational field of the Moon in unprecedented detail and provide new insight into the Moon's internal structure.

(210 diggs) The Juno spacecraft launched The Juno spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. Juno will make a five-year, 400-million-mile voyage to Jupiter, orbit the planet, investigate its origins and evolution with eight instruments to probe its internal structure and gravity field, measure water and ammonia in its atmosphere, map its powerful magnetic field and observe its intense auroras.

(323 diggs) Will Google Maps Win the Turn-by-Turn Nav War in Cars? Earlier this month, Ford and GM announced that by the end of June, the companies' respective GPS navigation systems would work in conjunction with Google Maps to allow drivers to preprogram those onboard systems with destinations.