Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis after being hit by a large asteroid about 4 billion years ago, according to a new study. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. The European Space Agency’s Juice mission will make two historic firsts on its long journey to study the potential habitability of Jupiter’s icy moons. Launching in April 2023, Juice, or the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer… Read More »
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered that one of the closest “hot Jupiter” planets to Earth smells like rotten eggs. The planet already has a bad reputation for deadly glass rain, extreme temperatures, and sideways winds of 5,000 mph (8,046 kph), but this discovery makes this world seem even less friendly.… Read More »
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These strange features appear to be caused by strong atmospheric gravitational waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice the size of Earth and believed to… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has been swirling through the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. However, astronomers debate how old the vortex actually is,… Read More »
Ed Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50 years and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed the first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88 years old. A physicist on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA missions… Read More »
Exoplanet WASP 107b is a gas giant almost as large as Jupiter but much less massive. Based on this discrepancy, astronomers did not know how a planet like WASP 107b could exist. But now two independent teams of researchers have harnessed the power of JWST to solve the mystery. There’s a planet in our cosmic… Read More »
In October this year, NASA will launch one of the most advanced spacecraft ever assembled. His target? Europa is the fourth largest moon of Jupiter. Europa Clipper missionThe satellite, which aims to reach Europa by 2030, is equipped with a range of instruments that could help scientists understand the moon’s complex geology and composition. researchers… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered a new planetary oddity beyond the solar system, as soft and light as cotton candy. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” called WASP-193 b, is about 1.5 times as wide as Jupiter but has just over one-tenth the mass of the gas giant in the solar system. This makes it the second lightest… Read More »
The moon of Jupiter Io, the solar system’s most volcanic body, has been in turmoil for at least 4.57 billion years, since its birth and the sun’s infancy. These are the findings of a team of scientists studying Io with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to track sulfur and chlorine in the atmosphere of… Read More »