Planets - Page 44

March 8, 2018

NASA releases 'unearthly' pictures of Jupiter, showing 9 massive cyclones with Category 5 hurricane wind speeds

NASA's Juno probe, which launched towards Jupiter nearly seven years ago, has finally given us images inside the biggest planet in our Solar System.

March 8, 2018

Is Earth's missing xenon hidden in the core?

Earth's xenon is missing.

March 7, 2018

Scorching Saturn-size world has 3 times the water of ringed planet

A Saturn-size gas giant exoplanet orbiting close to its star has three times as much water in its atmosphere as Saturn itself, researchers have found.

March 5, 2018

'Elusive' Mercury makes an appearance this month

If there is one thing that has bothered me over my 50-some years as an amateur astronomer, it is the way that most astronomy books give the impression that the planet Mercury is very difficult, if not almost impossible to see.

March 1, 2018

Superflare blasts Proxima b, the nearest exoplanet, dimming hopes of life

The rocky planet circling the closest star to the sun got hammered by a superpowerful flare last year, a new study reports.

February 27, 2018

Could methane on Saturn's moon Enceladus be a sign of life?

Some hardy Earth microbes could likely survive in the Saturn moon Enceladus' buried ocean, gobbling up hydrogen produced by interactions between seawater and rock, a new study suggests.

February 20, 2018

Jupiter's Great Red Spot will evaporate in little more than 10 years, astronomers say

When it was first measured in the 1800s, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was an enormous four times bigger than the Earth.

February 19, 2018

A giant storm on Neptune is disappearing and for the first time scientists are able to see it

A dark storm on Neptune, once big enough to reach from Boston to Portugal, is dwindling to nothing as the Hubble Space Telescope keeps watch.

February 16, 2018

Scientists find nearly 100 new 'exoplanets' in hunt for life in space

Scientists have discovered nearly 100 new 'exoplanets' in the search for Earth-like planets that could support life.

February 15, 2018

Origins of Earth's weird 'pulsating auroras' nailed down

The origins of intense flickering displays of light high up in Earth's atmosphere are now revealed after a decades-long hunt, a new study finds.