Jupiter's lightning has long been of interest to planetary scientists, as it marks stormy spots where researchers can look to ...
It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy ...
Researchers used data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, after NASA granted an extension to the spacecraft’s operations upon completing a five-year science campaign at Jupiter. Juno remains in good ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter's atmosphere on August 17, 2022, detecting a cluster ...
A radiation-hardened camera chip heals itself pixel by pixel ...
One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for more than a month as ...
Lord and Miller’s Project Hail Mary is a big-hearted space adventure that’s ultimately about a friendship between Ryan ...
The film which opens in theaters Thursday is grounded in a real nearby star systems an exoplanet science, with a dose of ...
Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...
What Looked Like a Planet Was Actually a Massive Space Collision So, imagine astronomers are looking at something, thinking, ‘Wow, cool planet!’ Then, bam! Turns out it wasn’t a planet at all, but a ...
In Ridley Scott’s ALIEN, the audience isn’t introduced to the Xenomorph right off the bat, but to the glorious Nostromo travelling through space. Utilizing industrial scrap and ...
A massive crater on asteroid Psyche may hold the key to whether it’s a lost planet’s core or something more complex. New ...