White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars ...

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

Jupiter’s Moon Io in the latest picture taken by the Juno spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Ted Stryk After years of capturing the massive world of ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has taken the best images of Jupiter’s moon Io in decades, as it passed by at a distance of 11,645 kilometres on 16 October. Io is slightly larger than Earth’s moon and mottled ...

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 these ...

Jupiter is an extraordinary planet with qualities that almost defy comprehension. At more than 300 times the mass of Earth, Jupiter is easily the largest planet in the solar system—a giant ball of ...