If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe's most dazzling phenomena—the double hot ...

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Text and photos by Michael J. Meyer Anyone who has visited Ocracoke Island knows how special it is: from stunning sunsets to magnificent views of the Milky Way on a moonless night after a cold ...

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Navrotsky heads up the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe at Arizona State University. The center ...

“In the universe, an absolute vacuum is rare, and most of the universe is very low-density high-temperature plasma,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “In principle, sound ...

To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has been working on a robot that could handle the ...

Recent observations of Mars and Jupiter have now given scientists unprecedented ... Jupiter’s aurorae operate on a vastly larger scale. Not only are they physically enormous compared to Earth ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough ... "These are huge alignments across the scale of the universe," says Christiansen. They are used by telescopes such as the James ...

February’s night sky gives us the bright trio of Mars, Jupiter and Venus, according to NASA skywatch experts. “Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter ...