A powerful solar storm has delivered a dramatic blow to Jupiter’s magnetosphere, revealing that even the largest planet in our solar system isn’t immune to the Sun’s ferocity. As detailed in a new ...

For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode relatively recently as scientists worked on remedying some ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032 ... This fluctuating movement pattern is due to Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which alters the orbit of these asteroids over time.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Earth's atmosphere is mainly nitrogen and oxygen. Jupiter also has storms ... there is no solid surface to hit. At what point ...

Each meteoroid moved on its own orbit and created a Lyrid shower meteor when it hit Earth after approaching the orbit of ...

Jupiter's diameter is 11 times larger than Earth's, meaning this heated region is enormous." And such solar wind events are believed to hit Jupiter two to three times per month! Scientists had ...

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.