NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the ...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27 ... NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come from just the first of 36 flybys that ...

Planetary scientists have issued a tornado warning for Jupiter, with the discovery that magnetic vortices twisting down from ...

Stargazers can see the Geminid and Ursid meteor shower this month to close out 2024. It’s been an action-packed year for ...

It began with electrically charged particles from the sun, which bombarded the north pole, caused an aurora there, and heated the region to 700 degrees Fahrenheit. Then Jupiter's winds carried ...

Jupiter is shown in visible light for context ... and the image shows how heat may be carried by winds away from the aurora and cause planet-wide heating.

“We’ve got instruments that will look at the atmosphere of Jupiter and its aurora, so in some ways JUICE will cover a broader spectrum of science—it’s not just for scientists interested in ...

Jupiter's auroras — the lights that dance around its poles — are the most distinct in our solar system and over a thousand times brighter than Earth's aurora. Now, a new study confirms that ...

For Ganymede, Dexter got consumed by the idea that you could stand on the moon—the most habitable of the four—at night and see Jupiter and its aurora in its sky. “I went for a more modern ...

For there to be a transitory phenomenon such as the dark ovals appearing at Jupiter's poles strongly suggested that it was connected to the planet's magnetic field, just like the aurora is.