Last July 4, when the Juno spacecraft executed a death-defying dive over Jupiter’s north pole and plunged through the planet’s searing radiation belts to begin orbiting the gas giant ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

scientists were amazed to find cyclones packed like cinnamon buns—six at the north pole, nine at the south—all spinning the same direction. They also found that Jupiter’s magnetic field is ...

During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were ...

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society sits down with host David Ariosto. The conversation starts with Bill’s journey but quickly pivots to the ...

The Arizona Diamondbacks made it four wins in a row with four home runs and Brandon Pfaadt's solid pitching in a 6-2 win over the Miami Marlins on April 16.

Thunderstorms are rare in the cold, dry Arctic, but a surprising event in August 2019 has scientists rethinking how these ...