to orbit around Jupiter, with an average orbit distance of around 0.1520226 astronomical units (AU), with one AU being the distance between the Earth and the Sun. That is an average distance of 22,742 ...

Planetary scientists using NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Jupiter, have reported the discovery of a new type of plasma phenomenon. It appears that around the north pole of the gas ...

What if the brilliant halos and sun dogs that are familiar to winter skies here on Earth are also glinting unseen but ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the sun will enter the final phase of its life. Its core of hydrogen fusion will expand and, in doing so, inflate the outer atmosphere of the star into gross proportions.

Venus will be at its highest in the 2025 predawn sky on Aug. 1, at which time it will appear as a bright 'morning star' to ...

The atmosphere around Jupiter’s poles then expanded, producing a thermal wave across the planet about 12 times as long as Earth’s diameter. The team managed to spot the event using data from ...

In a mission that changed our understanding of gas giants, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made history not just in orbit but also ...