During the red giant phase, both the Sun and Jupiter will shine brighter and become hotter. However, its moon Europa is ...

Chaotic instabilities occur in hot Jupiter atmospheres as alkali metals heat up as a result of extreme temperature dynamics.

Your life would be very different if Earth was a moon of Jupiter.

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Once seen as a relic of early-2000s soft rock, Train’s "Drops of Jupiter" has a backstory that reframes the entire song. Initially mistaken for a quirky love ballad, it was actually inspired by ...

On Earth, depending on where you are, the analemma can be at different angles, though it always traces out this figure-of-eight pattern. But on other planets, with their own orbits and mean solar ...

On June 17, in the year 2 B.C.E, a significant planetary conjunction occurred involving Venus and Jupiter. From Earth’s ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live.During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen ...

Gravitational microlensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1936, is an effect that “briefly brightens a distant source ...