NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

One of the big surprises: Despite the moon's cooled crust, the data shows Io maintains liquid hot lava just below the ground.

NASA’s Juno probe has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, and it’s still sending back fresh data. The spacecraft is giving ...

This illustration uses data obtained by NASA’s Juno mission to depict high-altitude electrical storms on Jupiter. Juno’s sensitive Stellar Reference Unit camera detected unusual lightning flashes on ...

Since then, nearly 6,000 planets outside our solar system have been discovered. Many are so-called gas giants, like Jupiter and Saturn ... will drill below the surface of Mars to search for ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

"On Earth, you have a surface—and rain will eventually ... of the cloud tops can differ from deeper in the planet. A cross section of Jupiter's atmosphere from the researchers' new model ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly ... reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or "surface" of the planet, which has a radius of 70,000 km.

The 3D picture of Jupiter's troposphere shows that the ... reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or "surface" of the planet, which has a radius of 70,000 km.

The whole process probably took just a few months, Lau said. After the planet spiraled in toward the star, it made contact with the star's surface. From there, drag forces sucked it into the star ...

Depictions like those of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy are just wildly unrealistic regarding the sheer amount of material that must be moved to the Red Planet to achieve anything remotely ...

Saturn is not alone, however, in ring-bearing—Jupiter, Uranus ... conditions would annihilate any possible life on the planet surface, if present. The researchers also keep searching for ...