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Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
Curious about what planets look like through a telescope? This guide breaks down what you’ll see based on your telescope’s ...
This image shows Jupiter's moon Ganymede captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1996. Situated more than 600 ...
The mission, focused on studying Jupiter and its moons, reached Jupiter's orbit on July 4, 2016. NASA announced the mission would continue through September 2025, "or until the spacecraft's end of ...
Venus becomes the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, the Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place and the Moon has ...
Jupiter’s striking size, swirling gases, and dramatic bands in its atmosphere set it apart from every other planet. One of ...
Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were ... The new batch of 128 moons was discovered by stacking images from the Canada France Hawaii telescope. Some of Saturn’s other ...
the researchers combined ground-based observations from the Keck telescope with data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, which has been exploring Jupiter and its moons since 2016. They traced the cause ...