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Witness the spectacular and destructive consequences of a collision between the solar system's two largest planets.
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.
"Explore the potential for Jupiter to ignite and become a second star in our solar system, transforming our night sky." ...
Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.
New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.
The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...
Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.
Scientists using the James Webb Telescope have detected a gas on K2-18b that, on Earth, is only produced by living ...