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UAF scientist clarifies Jupiter's magnetospheric dynamics with new data Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 07, 2024 Recent findings by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists offer new insights into Jupiter's magnetosphere, potentially enhancing our understanding of terrestrial space weather. These discoveries could also influence the longstanding debate regarding the magnetospheric structure of the solar system's largest planet. "By exploring a larger space such as Jupiter, we can better understand the fundamental physics governing Earth's magnetosphere and thereby improve our space weather forecasting," sai ... read more |
Webb telescope details weather patterns on distant exoplanet Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2024 Using the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard NASA's Webb Telescope, scientists have conducted a detailed examination of the weather on WASP-43 b, a hot gas-giant exoplanet 280 light-years from Ea ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2024 NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided new insights into Io, one of Jupiter's moons, through detailed animations derived from recent flybys. These visuals spotlight a towering mountain and a vast lake ... more Madrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 22, 2024 Liquid water is a primary indicator of potential life on other planets. Key celestial bodies within our solar system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Europa, and Callis ... more London, UK (SPX) Apr 17, 2024 New research pinpoints the timeline of the Solar System's giant planets moving into their current orbits, showing these changes occurred between 60-100 million years after the Solar System formed. T ... more |
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The Persistent Ices of Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2024 Scientists at Brown University, in collaboration with the SETI Institute, have unveiled findings from a new study that may rewrite the narrative on the behavior and composition of distant solar syst ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2024 A groundbreaking study by Brown University and the SETI Institute has unveiled unexpected characteristics of distant solar system objects, specifically highlighting a phenomenon involving so-called ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2024 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has once again captured the majestic beauty of Jupiter, showcasing the planet's vivid weather patterns in new images taken on January 5-6, 2024. As part of the Outer Pl ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2024 Innovative research published in Icarus unveils the enduring nature of volatile substances such as carbon monoxide (CO) within Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, offering new insights into the long ... more Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2024 NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets - doing the same work as small satellites bu ... more |
NASA's Europa Jupiter Mission will be packed with humanity's messages Washington DC (UPI) Mar 8, 2024 NASA said Friday the Europa Clipper Jupiter mission set to launch in October will carry profound messages from humanity as it gathers scientific data to determine if there are life-supporting conditions. The Europa Clipper spacecraft will be headed for Jupiter's moon, Europa. In addition to scientific instruments for experiments and data collection, it will include an engraving of U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon's handwritten "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa." A silicon chip ... read more Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2024 A ring of icy rocks orbiting our sun just beyond Neptune may give us a glimpse of how Neptune - and other objects in the outskirts of our solar system - were formed. Mors-Somnus, a binary duo ... more |
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NASA's Juno Mission Measures Oxygen Production at Europa Washington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2024 Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. Published on March 4 i ... more Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 05, 2024 On a given night, the Allegheny Observatory might be hosting an open house, a lecture given by astronomy experts, educational programs for kids or tours set aside specifically for teachers and their ... more Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2024 Speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, almost 60 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the New Horizons Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC) instrument is detecting higher than e ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2024 The Solar System has some new lunar members-the first new moon of Uranus discovered in more than 20 years, and likely the smallest, as well as two new moons of Neptune, one of which is the faintest ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2024 NASA's Juno spacecraft has once again set the bar high by delivering the closest and most detailed images of Jupiter's moon Io in over two decades. The spacecraft, which has been orbiting the larges ... more |
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