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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the ...
A glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering a glimpse into the moon's hidden interior and violent past. Witness live views of Earth from the International Space Station as it ...
it has been probing beneath the dense, forbidding clouds encircling the giant planet—the first orbiter to peer so closely. It ...
NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...
A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in Reading, UK. The hot region, which had a temperature of over 750 K, ...
“[The mission designers] knew that if you wanted to understand the formation of the solar system, you needed to compare the composition of Jupiter with that of the sun,” says Bolton.
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly ... may occur on all gaseous planets in the galaxy, including our solar system's other giant planets, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.