The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

New observations confirm a dynamic and complex atmosphere with shifting temperatures ... The object, with a mass of approximately 13 times that of Jupiter, is only 20 light-years away in the ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

Previously thought to be defined by simple cloud patterns, NASA’s JWST has unveiled the astonishing complexity of SIMP 0136, a starless super-Jupiter NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a ...

Is Jupiter hot or cold? This is actually not a simple question to answer. Because of the enormous pressure of the planet’s atmosphere, scientists have a little trouble being absolutely confident ...

A row of pavilions near the Jupiter Inlet marks the site of the old life-saving station, where many lives were saved and lost ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.

SIMP 0136 is a rapidly rotating, free-floating object roughly 13 times the mass of Jupiter, located in the Milky Way just 20 light-years from Earth ... temperature variations in the upper atmosphere, ...