The evidence for aurora on Mercury comes from a flyby of ... charged particles from the sun—just as happens around Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. BepiColumbo found direct evidence of ...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27 ... NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come from just the first of 36 flybys that ...

However, in practice, it turned out that Jupiter surprised scientists. "In reality, it is just as interesting as the aurora [on Jupiter], if not more. Jupiter never ceases to amaze," added Melin.

It began with electrically charged particles from the sun, which bombarded the north pole, caused an aurora there, and heated the region to 700 degrees Fahrenheit. Then Jupiter's winds carried ...

To kick off the month, the Red Planet will be at a very bright magnitude. It rises at midnight on November 1 and will be ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his long-exposure photographs from the International Space Station (ISS), recently ...

What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world. Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa ... against the Texans Beware of Mountain Lions in ...

Read more: Aurora season is here ... it will be the first small step on the Europa Clipper's long journey to the Jupiter system. Once it arrives in April 2030, the spacecraft will investigate ...

The magnetic field around Jupiter is enormous, with a strength some 20,000 times greater than that of Earth! The magnetosphere is some 1200 times larger in size than that found around the Earth! Note ...

For Ganymede, Dexter got consumed by the idea that you could stand on the moon—the most habitable of the four—at night and see Jupiter and its aurora in its sky. “I went for a more modern ...