A total lunar eclipse is the highlight of the month. For planetary action, Jupiter is well placed most of the night and there are many events involving its Galilean moons. Soon after sunset, ...
On February 28, in the evening and at night, Ukrainians will be able to see a rare phenomenon when six planets line up in one ...
Uranus and Neptune will also be on the scene, too dim to see with the naked eye.
New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...
Scientists may have solved a long-standing mystery surrounding Uranus' extraordinarily strong radiation belt. A new analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a temporary space weather event may have ...
On January 19, the Webb space telescope stared deep into the chaotic world of Uranus for 17 hours, observing as the faint glow from molecules above the planet’s clouds meets its unusual magnetic field ...
"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...
The discovery was made by re-analyzing radar data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft from the early 1990s. This finding confirms long-held theories about the existence of subsurface volcanic features on ...
Researchers had only hypothesized the existence of underground lava tubes on Venus—until now. Using decades-old radar data, a team of scientists in Italy has discovered an empty, subsurface lava tube ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has watched Uranus' upper atmosphere for almost a full Uranian day. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / P. Tiranti / H. Melin / M. Zamani Scientists have mapped the upper ...
Volcanic activity is not unique to Earth: traces of volcanic activity, such as lava tubes, have been found on Mars and the moon. Now, the University of Trento has demonstrated the existence of an ...