The James Webb Telescope has revealed fierce auroras, storms, and unchanging sand-like clouds on the rogue planet SIMP-0136. These insights are pushing the boundaries of our understanding of alien ...

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.

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The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came from another star system entirely. At first, some speculated it could be an ...

Something strange is stirring in Saturn’s skies. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something entirely new in Saturn’s atmosphere: a string of dark, bead-like features high ...

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As they whirl around in low-Earth orbit, satellite configurations are far more sensitive to changes in Earth's gravity field than sensors on the surface. They stay within a detectable proximity to ...

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule long expected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and other giant planets.

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

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New JWST observations of Saturn reveal bizarre bead-like auroras and a lopsided star-shaped pattern in the atmosphere.

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn for over a decade, had difficulty catching clear signals from ...