Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby of Jupiter and Its Great Red Spot
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit. All of…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit. All of…
By combining two-fluid global hydrodynamics simulations with a radiative transfer code, astronomers from the University of Arizona track and investigate the observational signatures of super-Earths….
This newly released image shows the light of a new day as it illuminates Saturn’s wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of the vast…
A team of researchers from Yale University has identified 60 potential new “Hot Jupiters” — highly irradiated worlds that glow like coals on a barbecue…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on July 10th, helping astronomers better understand how this giant storm works and what…
Chandra reveals that the X-ray emission from Pluto is as strong as that coming from solar system objects with much more substantial atmospheres. Pluto is…
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover examines rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or…
Using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno Spacecraft, citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s bands of…
NASA has released the first study of potential future missions to the mysterious “ice giant” planets Uranus and Neptune. The Ice Giant Mission Study is…
This newly released image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a view of the Mars Curiosity Rover amid rocky terrain on Mount Sharp. The car-size…
Astronomers have identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star’s habitable zone. NASA’s Kepler space telescope team…
New magnetohydrodynamic simulations of HAT-P-7 b reveal variable winds and a corresponding variability in the position of the hottest point in the atmosphere. Studying a…
Taken on May 19, 2017, by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft, this enhanced image reveals the many colors of Jupiter. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft was racing away from…
This newly released Cassini image shows bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn’s moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon lakes and seas…
New research from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reveals that Jupiter is the oldest planet in our solar system. By looking at tungsten and molybdenum…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers view the Boomerang Nebula – a pre-planetary nebula produced by a dying star. This Picture of Week…
This newly released image from NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft shows the northeastern rim of Urvara Crater on Ceres, helping to shed light on the nature of…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has revealed a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks from the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp on Mars,…