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Europa Clipper gears up with full instrument suite onboard
Feb 01, 2024 (SPX)
Slated for an October liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Europa Clipper spacecraft is designed to conduct a detailed study of Europa, one of the ...
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
Jan 08, 2024 (SPX)
The correct shades of the planets have been confirmed with the help of research led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford, which has been pub...
Researchers reveal true colors of Neptune, Uranus
Jan 05, 2024 (UPI)
The research shows that both Uranus and Neptune are closer to greenish blue as opposed to the deep blue hue usually associated with Neptune and the greener shad...
Jupiter was targeted by exoplanet hunter
Dec 27, 2023 (SPX)
Astrophysicists have already begun to obtain data on the atmospheres of exoplanets, but fundamental questions about the atmosphere of the largest planet in the ...
The PI's Perspective: The Long Game
Dec 21, 2023 (SPX)
The spacecraft is collecting round-the-clock data on our Sun's cocoon in the galaxy called the heliosphere, and transmitting that data as well as the final data...
Webb rings in the holidays with the ringed planet Uranus
Dec 19, 2023 (SPX)
With its exquisite sensitivity, Webb captured Uranus's dim inner and outer rings, including the elusive Zeta ring - the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest...
Unwrapping Uranus and its icy moon secrets
Nov 30, 2023 (SPX)
Unvisited by spacecraft for more than 35 years, Uranus inhabits one of the least explored regions of our solar system. Although scientists have learned some thi...
Juice burns hard towards first-ever Earth-Moon flyby
Nov 17, 2023 (ESA)
It's on a mission to make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large, ocean-bearing moons - Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. But Juice won'...
Fall into an ice giant's atmosphere
Nov 16, 2023 (ESA)
Taking place as part of an effort to simulate the flight of proposed atmospheric probes, the test campaign achieved an equivalent speed up to 19 km/s - although...
Juno finds Jupiter's winds penetrate in cylindrical layers
Nov 10, 2023 (JPL)
The violent nature of Jupiter's roiling atmosphere has long been a source of fascination for astronomers and planetary scientists, and Juno has had a ringside s...
Salts and organics observed on Ganymede's surface by June
Oct 31, 2023 (JPL)
Larger than the planet Mercury, Ganymede is the biggest of Jupiter's moons and has long been of great interest to scientists due to the vast internal ocean of w...
New jet stream discovered in Jupiter's upper atmosphere
Oct 31, 2023 (SPX)
On the Earth, jet streams form at various latitudes and meander around the planet, changing latitude and reaching speeds approaching 400 km/h at an altitude of ...
Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
The discovery could shed light on the mysteries behind the magnetic fields of the planets of our solar system, and even on whether distant worlds might support ...
How NASA is protecting Europa Clipper from space radiation
Oct 25, 2023 (JPL)
When NASA's Europa Clipper begins orbiting Jupiter to investigate whether its ice-encased moon, Europa, has conditions suitable for life, the spacecraft will pa...
NASA's Webb Discovers New Feature in Jupiter's Atmosphere
Oct 20, 2023 (SPX)
However, much like Earth, Jupiter is ever-changing, and there's much about the planet we have yet to learn. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is unlocking some ...
Plot thickens in hunt for ninth planet
Oct 10, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers Harsh Mathur, a professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University, and Katherine Brown, an associate professor of physics at Hamilton College,...
Large mound structures on Kuiper belt object Arrokoth may have common origin
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made a close flyby of Arrokoth in 2019. From those data, Stern and his coauthors identified 12 mounds on Arrokoth's larger lobe, ...
Plot thickens in the hunt for a ninth planet
Sep 28, 2023 (SPX)
In an article published in the Astronomical Journal last week, physicists report that the same observations that motivate the hunt for a ninth planet might actu...
Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter's moon Europa
Sep 22, 2023 (ESA)
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Europa. Analys...
Hidden ocean the source of CO2 on Jupiter moon
Sep 21, 2023 (AFP)
Scientists are confident there is a huge ocean of saltwater kilometres below Europa's ice-covered surface, making the moon a prime candidate for hosting extra-t...
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