NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing ...
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Vesta is simpler inside than previously thought
Back to Article List Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to ...
Read moreDetailsPlanet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System
Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets. Which planet is biggest? Which is smallest? What ...
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Hubble Helps Determine Uranus’ Rotation Rate with Unprecedented Precision
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made new measurements of Uranus' interior rotation rate ...
Read moreDetailsNASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time
Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under Webb’s powerful gaze For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...
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Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds todayheadline
Superacids can turn carbon molecules into diamondsSefa Kart/Alamy Water may transform into a superacidic fluid under extreme heat and pressure. ...
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Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why todayheadline
A fracture on Mars’s surface, taken in January 2018 by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express craftESA/DLR/FU Berlin Thousands of ...
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Planetary alignment: How to see every planet in the solar system at once this week todayheadline
An artist’s impression of the solar systemShutterstock/Vadim Sadovski All of our solar system’s planets are lining up in the night ...
Read moreDetailsPlanetary Alignments and Planet Parades
On most nights, weather permitting, you can spot at least one bright planet in the night sky. While two or ...
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Saturn’s rings may be far older than we thought todayheadline
Saturn and its rings, as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in 2016NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute The rings of Saturn could be ...
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