Celestial citrus! Scientists are baffled by a LEMON-shaped planet that ‘defies explanation’
Scientists have been baffled by a bizarre lemon–shaped planet that ‘defies explanation’. The Jupiter–size planet was discovered by…
See Jupiter, The Moon, Aurora And ‘Shooting Stars’ On Sunday
The moon and Jupiter will form a striking conjunction on Sunday, December 7, lighting up the eastern sky…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
Voyager 1 will be one light-day, 16 billion miles, from us next year
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as…
NASA unveils close-up pictures of Comet 31/Atlas in our solar system
NASA has unveiled close-up pictures of an interstellar comet that’s making a quick dash around the solar system,…
4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation
When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed…
James Webb Mapped the Chaotic Weather of a Planet Drifting Alone Through Space and It’s Even Wilder Than Jupiter
Artist’s impression of SIMP 0136. Credit: Anastasiia Nahurna. Drifting alone through space, about 20 light-years away, is a…
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io is burning much hotter than expected
Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can…
Jupiter Enabled Solar System’s Unique Inner Architecture, Says Study
Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are…
How a young Jupiter saved Earth from falling into the Sun
Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals,…
Mystery of jet streams on gas giants explained with unified model
Researchers from the Netherlands Research School of Astronomy have created a new model that, they believe, explains the…
The main asteroid belt of our solar system is slowly disappearing
The main asteroid belt in our solar system is located between Mars and Jupiter. And although it is…