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Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern ...
Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The spacecraft detected warm lava flows beneath Io’s crust and uncovered how heat ...
Juno sheds light on Jupiter’s polar storms and Io’s hidden lava, offering insights at two of the solar system’s most extreme ...
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the coldest exoplanet ever observed, orbiting a white dwarf, with the help of NASA ...
NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge asks students to create a mission to a moon using radioisotope power systems.
Scientists using JWST have identified WD 1856+534 b—the coldest exoplanet yet—circling a dead star, revealing surprising ...
The Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute is getting new leadership. Amanda Hendrix is taking over as director and CEO from Mark Sykes. He led the research organization for 21 years. Hendrix notes ...
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is peaking. Experts say you can expect to see 10 to 15 meteors per hour in ideal viewing ...
Reference Explore the eight (or nine) planets of the solar system in order from nearest to the sun and discover the many wonders of our solar system along the way. An object seen to have moved in the ...
The annual meteor shower is composed of debris from Halley’s Comet as they burn up on entry to Earth’s atmosphere.
32.This wild-looking thing is a balloon apron from World War I, a giant net suspended from balloons that was used to help ...
The ETA Aquarids is set to peak in early May less than two weeks since the last meteor shower lit up the night sky, where in California to watch.