Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its ...
This was Juno’s 66th perijove. Each one of these close flybys has added a wealth of knowledge to our understanding of Jupiter ...
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goe ...
Similarly, Jupiter's moons Io and Europa have a 2:1 resonance (for every two orbits Io makes around Jupiter, Europa makes one), which generates enough tidal forces to sustain an ocean beneath ...
Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Ganymede, Io and Callisto. Seeking conditions that support life What type of life might ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...
In 1676, Danish astronomer Ole Roemer chanced upon the first estimate for light's propagation while studying Io, Jupiter's innermost moon. By timing the eclipses of Io by Jupiter, Roemer was hoping to ...
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...