Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful aurora – only not in ways the researchers ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing and analyzing the first new type of plasma wave in Jupiter’s aurora. This ...

On Earth, bursts of particles spewed by the Sun spark shimmering auroras, like the Northern Lights, that briefly dance at our planet’s poles. But, on Jupiter, there’s an auroral glow all the time, and ...

As a planet that's over 1,300 times larger than the Earth, Jupiter was dubbed King of the Planets for a reason. Recurring extraordinary phenomena in its atmosphere are also testimonies that it is ...

A fresh look at Jupiter's powerful auroras with the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed never-before-seen details, and has uncovered a strange mystery for researchers to solve. On Christmas Day in ...

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Since ...

This weekend is a skywatcher’s joy as the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower occurs Saturday and Sunday nights, accompanied by a stunning late night planetary pairing of Mars and Jupiter. If the ...

The auroras we talked about on Monday may still happen, but they're not exactly on schedule. A moderate G2 storm was expected to get underway today - a day early - beginning late morning or early ...

Jupiter’s magnetosphere is the largest and most dynamic in the Solar System, a vast region where the planet’s powerful magnetic field governs the behaviour of charged particles. This envelope not only ...

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...