NASA’s Juno spacecraft has reshaped key ideas about Jupiter. Data collected during the probe’s polar orbits reveal a planet with jet streams plunging thousands of kilometers deep, a lopsided magnetic ...
February 22 and 23 feature the waxing crescent moon, Jupiter, and Gemini’s twin stars in the evening sky. Pleiades and Aldebaran are also visible from sunset to midnight.
NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...
Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...
Six planets will form a cosmic lineup Feb. 28 — here’s why the rare sight may be harder to spot than you think.
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, as well as other gas giants ...
Six planets will line up in a rare "planetary parade" this month - but spotting them all won't be easy.
New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...
Stargazers, get ready for a celestial show! A planetary alignment featuring six planets will be visible in late February and ...
Six planets are above the horizon this weekend — but only two are obvious to the naked eye. Here’s what you’ll really see ...