Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses into clouds and falls as rain throughout the giant planet's swirled, ...
Juno spacecraft captured image of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes. (Image: Jackie Branc/science.nasa.gov) NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a striking new view of Jupiter this week, showing the ...
ALMA captures surprising activity in comet C/2014 UN271, Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, the largest ever detected.
Greetings! You can see all five visible planets this week, two in the early morning sky and three in the evening sky.
NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...
Like stars, this world forms from collapsing clouds of gas, but it never grows massive enough ... tracking subtle changes in its atmosphere over a full rotation. The study, published Sept. 26 in the ...
The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were ...
The most energetic events in the universe are gamma ray bursts, beams of radiation so intense they could wipe out all life on ...
This is how the astronomer Galileo showed that not all things in the sky rotate around Earth. If you are fortunate to have a telescope, Jupiter itself has a wealth of cloud detail in the form of belts ...
A natural satellite is simply a celestial object that orbits a planet or a smaller body. Unlike the ones we build and send up ...
Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...