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10 celestial events to look forward to this October!
This October, the night sky promises a celestial showcase with breathtaking events like a "ring of…
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NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplaneta…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says
NASA's Juno mission data suggests Jupiter's moon Europa generates less oxygen than thought, which n…
Ellyn Lapointe
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New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth
NASA's Juno spacecraft flew extremely close to Jupiter's eruptive moon Io and took some stunning ph…
Ellyn Lapointe
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How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction
The Perseids can be the best meteor shower of the year, thanks to bright fireballs and long colorfu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…
PTI
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Scientists launch JUICE mission to explore Jupiter's icy moons
Could we discover conditions necessary for life outside the Earth in the solar system? This is one …
PTI
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Mesmerizing new NASA image shows the lava on one of Jupiter's moons that helps form the massive planet's auroras
NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped an infrared picture of Jupiter's moon Io, which is home to hundreds …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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45 years ago, NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew past Jupiter. See how the iconic video compares to photos of the planet today.
Voyager 1 captured Jupiter as nobody had ever seen it before. Now, 45 years later, NASA's Juno spac…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's powerful auroras form during a 'tug of war' between the planet and nearby moon volcanoes
NASA's Juno spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope helped researchers chart the electric current…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New James Webb Space Telescope photos of Jupiter show stunning auroras, faint rings, and tiny moons
The powerful infrared telescope captured images of Jupiter's auroras, which are the brightest in th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Side-by-side images from flybys of Europa show close-up views of Jupiter's icy moon over 20 years
During Thursday's flyby, NASA's Juno probe made important observations about Europa, a leading cand…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals one of the most mysterious worlds in the universe might have a volcanic moon
Mysterious brown dwarfs are neither planets nor stars, but this one somehow has northern lights, me…