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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You’d think that icy worlds are frozen in time and space because they’re — well — icy. However, planetary scientists…
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Read More »A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter’s magnetosphere “like a giant squash ball,” a new study reports. The discovery…
Read More »Today (March 1), NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly past Mars, gliding just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the Red…
Read More »This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft’s voyage. The image is a mosaic of a…
Read More »A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar…
Read More »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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