As on Earth, Jupiter's magnetic field converges at its poles, and as on Earth, this concentration of magnetic field lines drives charged particles toward the polar regions, where ...
Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A UC ...
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 ...
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 ...
South America is an overlooked cruise destination, but nowhere gives you the chance to sail to more varied destinations.
The NASA Juno spacecraft has once again amazed the world, capturing an extraordinary image of Jupiter’s atmosphere. This time ...
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...