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Astronomers discover a double dose of mysterious hot Jupiters

Astronomers may have uncovered the curious origins of the universe’s most curious planets, so-called “double hot Jupiters.” The team behind…

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James Webb telescope spots weird changes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

You’d think that icy worlds are frozen in time and space because they’re — well — icy. However, planetary scientists…

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Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter’s super volcanic moon Io

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and…

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Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter’s magnetic field ‘like a giant squash ball’

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter’s magnetosphere “like a giant squash ball,” a new study reports. The discovery…

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NASA’s Europa Clipper will fly close to Mars today on way to Jupiter’s icy moon

Today (March 1), NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly past Mars, gliding just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the Red…

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NASA’s Europa Clipper snaps its 1st starry image en route to Jupiter’s icy moon

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft’s voyage. The image is a mosaic of a…

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Jupiter’s ‘tormented moon’ Io just unleashed the most powerful volcanic event ever seen

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar…

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter’s moon Io

Even for Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA’s…

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