Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

Astronomers have successfully captured Neptune's auroras for the first time, utilizing the combined capabilities of the James ...

Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...

Whether or not this is so at the distance of the Moon (that is, sufficiently far from the terrestrial magnetosphere) and in all parts of the energy spectrum remains, however, yet to be seen.

Aurora is a shifting pattern of light emitted from atoms and molecules in the atmosphere after they have been ionized by collisions with charged particles from the sun. The radiation can be seen ...

2025 is also set to mark the end of some big missions in space. Nasa's Juno spacecraft took five years to reach Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. For the past eight years it has provided ...

"Since the most commonly detected type of extrasolar planet is Neptune-sized, and as Neptune lacks the extreme seasons of Uranus," the researchers write in their paper, "these observations provide a ...

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