Founded in autumn 2002 at a party in Eifel, the band's name was inspired by the young detective Jupiter Jones (German Justus Jonas), a character from the book and radio play series Three Investigators.

Their first demo Auf das Leben ("A cheer to life"), was produced and available for download in the same year the band was founded.

Their debut album Raum um Raum (Room by Room) was published in October 2004, with the single Reiss die Trauer aus den Büchern ("Rip the grief from the books") being voted to first place of the newcomer broadcast Netzparade, a program introducing new hits on the radio station Dasding.

In the following year, they performed at a festival in Ankara in front of an audience of approximately 7,000 and played an Unplugged concert in the Capuchin monastery Cochem, which was published as a DVD as well as an album under the name …leise ("… quiet").

There is also an official music video for Still, and in April 2011 Jupiter Jones performed the song in an episode of Hand aufs Herz.

[5][6] In May and June 2011, the band performed at the Schlossgrabenfest in Darmstadt[7] and at the Hurricane and Southside festivals,[8] and on 15 June 2011, the group sang and played their song Immer für immer ("Ever forever") live on Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen (a German Breakfast TV show), which they also presented on 1 July 2011 in the program on tape on ZDFkultur and had already performed for the Radio Bremen program Buten un Binnen on 12 March 2011.

On 5 October 2012, a Dutch cover version of the song Still by the Zeeland band Bløf was released in the Netherlands under the name Zo stil.

Since then, only Nicolas Müller and Sasche Eigner are official band members that are accompanied by musicians who are their friends when performing live.

[19] The album Die Sonne ist ein Zwergstern (the sun is a dwarf star) was financed via crowdfunding[20] and released on 30 December 2022.