A groundbreaking study has unveiled a startling portrait of Jupiter‘s early days, revealing the gas giant was once nearly ...

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

Mars experienced an aurora in March 2024, turning the sky green, as a solar storm produced the first visible light Martian ...

The telescope captured the space phenomena, which is hundreds of times brighter than the auroras we see on Earth.

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Webb and Hubble telescopes, released a video of ...

This ionized material is then rapidly expelled under the influence of Saturn's magnetic field, either being drawn toward the planet itself or ejected outside the rings. This process helps maintain the ...

This leaves behind charged nanoparticles, which Saturn’s magnetic field can push away from the rings. As a result, much of the debris escapes or falls into Saturn's atmosphere. This process ...

This gas would then expand, cool and condense within Saturn's magnetic field, producing electrically charged ions and microscopic particles. The simulations then revealed these charged particles ...

Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn all have dipolar magnetic fields, meaning they have a north and south pole — the type of configuration we’re obviously used to. But Uranus and Neptune don’t.

Catch Saturn’s rings while you can ... of a piece of paper “when it’s positioned at the far end of a soccer field,” per the space site. How can such gigantic rings simply vanish from ...