The three main weather patterns on Venus. Researchers think the dayside poleward circulation and newly discovered nightside equatorial circulation may fuel the planetwide super-rotation that…
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Artist’s impression of the internal structure of Mars. Credit: © IPGP / David Ducros Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars…
NASA’s Juno Mission observed pulsating electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in Jupiter’s dawn magnetosphere that periodically expel energetic heavy ions into the atmosphere, producing stunning X-ray…
When the Sun evolves to become a red giant star, the Earth may be swallowed by our star’s atmosphere, and with a much more unstable…
On May 14th, 2021, the China National Space Agency (CNSA) achieved another major milestone when the Tianwen-1 lander successfully soft-landed on Mars, making China the…
This processed image of Io by New Horizons shows the 290-kilometer-high (180-mile-high) plume of the volcano Tvashtar near Io’s north pole. Also visible is the…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Panelists will discuss the rover’s recently started science campaign and…
The purple hues in this image show X-ray emissions from Jupiter’s auroras, detected by NASA’s Chandra Space Telescope in 2007. They are overlaid on an…
Juno has discovered a new population of highly energetic ions (bright blue spots) at midlatitudes within the inner edge of Jupiter’s relativistic electron belt, a…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of tracks made by the Perseverance rover during its ninth flight, on July 5. A portion of the…
Maat Mons, a large volcano on Venus, is shown in this 1991 simulated-color radar image from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft mission. Credit: NASA/JPL Traces of the…
Artist’s impression of the four planets of the HR 8799 system and its star. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Astronomers from University of Warwick and…
Three images of Jupiter show the gas giant in three different types of light — infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The image on the left was…
Jupiter’s mysterious X-ray auroras have been explained, ending a 40-year quest for an answer. For the first time, astronomers have seen the way Jupiter’s magnetic…
Artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of “rogue” (or “free-floating”) planets, planets that may be alone…
Illustration of a planet floating freely through the universe with a moon that can store water. Credit: © Tommaso Grassi / LMU The moons of…
New research shows the sun’s magnetic field drew iron toward the center of our solar system as the planets formed. That explains why Mercury, which…
Mars’ ‘Delta Scarp’ From More Than a Mile Away: Perseverance scientist Vivian Sun was excited to see certain geologic features in imagery of Jezero Crater’s…
New research suggests that Venus’ crust is broken into large blocks – the dark reddish–purple areas – that are surrounded by belts of tectonic structures…
A 1,100 km-wide, false-color radar view of Lavinia Planitia, one of the lowland regions on Venus where the lithosphere has fragmented into blocks (purple) delineated…