It could also settle a long-running debate. A group of researchers studying data gathered by NASA’s Juno spacecraft of Jupiter’s magnetosphere found that there is a crescent-shaped area of ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

The magnetic field around Jupiter is enormous, with a strength some 20,000 times greater than that of Earth! The magnetosphere is some 1200 times larger in size than that found around the Earth! Note ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

The size of the ice particles and the surface temperature can be estimated in this way. Since these properties are sensitive to environmental conditions – for example, bombardment by charged particles ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

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