Chris Moeckel of UC Berkeley suspects that these hailstones, known as mushballs, play an outsized role in Jupiter’s weather and chemistry. He believes this phenomenon might also extend to other large ...

Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world, or lead to an Earth-like twin thought of as Planet B? Or perhaps a technosignature ...

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 ...

But the study authors, and other experts, remain cautious and have not declared a definitive discovery of life beyond our planet. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team detected chemical ...

Inferring planet composition from observations of clouds Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants like Neptune and Uranus are a major focus of current space missions and large telescopes ...

Venus begins a season-long absence from the sky, hidden by the glow of the Sun as it slowly passes behind our star, not returning to our view until August. It reaches superior conjunction on June 4, ...

Do you notice how typhoons are getting stronger, pollution is worsening, and the environment is deteriorating? These are the results of reckless human activities! Fortunately, the solution is in our ...

If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in the southwestern sky. All three bodies will be ...