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Earth has a water cycle that moves the liquid around between the ground and the atmosphere, and Titan has a similar methane ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed glowing auroras on Jupiter like never before.
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan, capturing the first evidence of ...
The auroras on Jupiter are generated in a similar way to the auroras on Earth. Particles are slurped up into the planetary ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...
When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?
Saturn’s moon Titan is almost featureless when seen in visible light, thanks to a thick blanket of atmospheric fog. But when ...
Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is ...
Through the citizen science project, called Galaxy Zoo (part of the Zooniverse platform), volunteers can help astronomers ...
The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.
New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.
The infrared views, captured in 2023, shed light on the giant planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere—but they also reveal something unexpected ...