After orbiting Mars for eight long years, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft observed an extraordinary duo of…
Jupiter's upper atmosphere should be pretty cold, but it is surprisingly quite hot.
In a joint effort between NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft and the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Mars mission (EMM), scientists have observed…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is designed to probe the farthest frontiers of the universe, but newly released images of…
How dating an ancient text revealed one of the oldest observations of aurora known.
Vivid green and purple aurora swirled and danced across the entire night sky in Sweden recently. The nighttime light show…
Auroras come in many shapes and sizes. Jupiter is well known for its spectacular complement of bright polar lights, which…
X-rays offer a unique insight into the astronomical world. Invisible to the naked eye, most commonly they are thought of…
A brown dwarf has been detected by a radio telescope, which opens a new way to discover them.
The ESA's Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended four years ago. On September 30th 2016 the spacecraft was directed into…