The weather on Earth can get pretty messy sometimes. But in space, it can be wild, and the effects can be far-reaching. Solar ...
The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first time by mapping the emissions from the dust grains within it. The disk in ...
A decades-old mystery about Saturn has finally been solved thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists discovered that Saturn’s changing “rotation rate” was never caused by the planet ...
JWST’s NIRSpec aurora maps, 10 times sharper than Cassini-era data, exposed a planetary heat engine of aurora, winds, and ...
Magnetic fields thread the largest structures in the observable universe. They trace the filaments of the cosmic web, wind ...
For more than 40 years, planetary scientists believed they knew how long a day on Saturn lasted. They were listening to the ...