The public is enamored of images returned to Earth by space probes. Whether they show the moons of Jupiter, the rings of ...

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

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed that the radio burst came from a neutron star’s ‘magnetosphere’, or its magnetic field. This dying star was some 200 million ...

This year, the brilliant planet Jupiter will be shining about 1.3 fist diameters to the lower left (or 13 degrees to the celestial east) of the cluster. The “sisters” are medium-bright ...

That was not always the case, though, as before the planet lost its magnetosphere the place had all the attributes it needed to allow the existence of lakes, rivers, and oceans. Photo: NASA JPL ...

Worldwide, the best day to see the alignment is today, Feb. 28. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the ...

To get close to Europa, the probe must pass through Jupiter’s immense magnetosphere, which causes intense radiation that could destroy many standard spacecrafts and probes. The magnetosphere of ...