3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (476+ words) Saturn has puzzled scientists with its “heartbeat” for decades. The planet appeared to rotate at different speeds depending on how it was measured. Ground-based observations of Saturn’s upper atmosphere were imprecise and disclosed only rough limits on temperatures and ion…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (477+ words) Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system; at over 3,200 miles across, it is larger than the planet Mercury. It is also the only moon with its own intrinsic magnetic field, produced by a churning central core…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1106+ words) Astronomers solve Saturn spin mystery: The truth behind its “changing” rotation The Times of India It is worth noting that for many years, the rotation speed of Saturn was seen as unusual by scientists, since it was changing from time…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (704+ words) image: Schematic showing the position of Saturn's cusp compared to Earth's. view more Saturn's magnetic shield is asymmetrical compared to Earth’s, suggests a new study involving University College London (UCL) researchers, and this is likely a result of its fast…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (406+ words) Image Credit: Royal Astronomical Society Richard Carrington is an English astronomer who contributed significanlty to our understanding of the sun. He is best known for documenting the Carrington Event in 1859. This event was the strongest known solar storm. It was…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (166+ words) NASA's Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter's atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing for each pulse). Background map from the Hubble Space Telescope identified the lightning source as…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (262+ words) Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an explosion so violent it could have stripped away the atmosphere of any planets unlucky enough to be nearby.Â…...

10+ mon, 2+ day ago   (320+ words) In a striking display of solar fury, a recent burst of high-energy particles from the Sun has created what scientists are calling a “hailstorm in space.” The phenomenon was dramatically captured by the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. In…...

11+ mon, 2+ day ago   (33+ words) A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across space — and occasionally, straight to our planet. With the help of......

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (395+ words) Our Sun seems pretty calm these days with a largely stable regular solar cycle revealed by sunspots and flare activity but billions of years ago, it was quite simply a menace. Scientists have just captured evidence of what the Sun…...