Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...
Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A UC ...
Jupiter’s immense size–about 1,000 Earths could fit inside of it–and its swirling and jiggly Great Red Spot typically get ...
A planetary scientist proposes that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune are layered, with deep oceans of water above ...
Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...
A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange ...
In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...
The gift of a great story starts here, with titles including picture books and YA. Reese Witherspoon and Trevor Noah are here ...
Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken Feb. 5, 1979, by Voyager 1. Io, Europa, and Callisto are seen against Jupiter disk.
When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...