How Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Met Unlikely Observer
On its way to Jupiter, ESA’s Juice spacecraft briefly turned its gaze toward a rare interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS,…
New moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter and Saturn
ⓘ Placidplace – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing Saturn’s rings and several moons. Astronomers have discovered new moons…
Motional Induction In Ganymede’s Ocean
Status Report astro-ph.EP March 14, 2026 Numerical ocean-induction setup for Ganymede in a deep-ocean scenario with Re m…
Webb Captures Io’s and Europa’s Auroral Footprints in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope conducted a clockwise scan around the entire limb of Jupiter, chasing aurora…
Ganymede’s Auroral Patches Reveal Shared Physics with Earth’s Aurorae
Scientsts from the United States, Europe and China have used the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
Jupiter Mission Captures Rare Shot of Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas on Its Way Out
Interstellar visitor comet 3I/Atlas may have bid farewell to Earth, but spacecraft traveling through the solar system kept…
Six-planet ‘parade’ to dazzle night sky on 28 February 2026 – How to see the rare alignment
A rare celestial spectacle is set to unfold in the evening skies on Saturday, 28 February 2026, as…
Listen to This Month’s ‘Planetary Parade’ With NASA’s Chandra
In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight: six planets will…
6 planets will parade across the night sky this weekend
Six planets are linking up in the sky at the end of February, and most will be visible…
Delivery Of Complex Organic Molecules To The System Of Jupiter
Two-dimensional temperature map of the disk after 280 kyr of evolution. The averaged trajectories of particles over this…
Super Jupiters can grow like planets after all
There’s a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings…
For Jupiter, ‘Textbooks Will Need to Be Updated’
Jupiter hasn’t shrunk, but our best measurement of it just did. Using fresh data from NASA’s Juno…