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 ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the sun ...

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 ...

In a recent groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered new details about Jupiter’s auroras, shedding light on the ...

(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 ...

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 3 minutes Since entering ...

Beautiful ‘dancing’ lights were recently found on Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The lights are similar to the auroras seen on Earth but are “hundreds of times brighter than those ...

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 ...

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 ...

SC25: EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year ...