Researchers used data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, after NASA granted an extension to the spacecraft’s operations upon completing a five-year science campaign at Jupiter. Juno remains in good ...
For a long time, Earth felt like an exception — a rare place where everything just happened to work. But that idea is ...
It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy ...
NASA's Perseverance Rover recently surprised scientists by discovering minerals that form rubies and sapphires embedded in pebbles on Mars. The rover ...
A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA ...
Jupiter's lightning has long been of interest to planetary scientists, as it marks stormy spots where researchers can look to ...
Deep in the cosmos, a hellish rocky planet completes a full orbit in just over ten hours, bakes under relentless stellar ...
A meteoroid weighing roughly 1 ton tore through the atmosphere over Texas on March 21, 2026, producing a brilliant fireball ...
A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...