Far beyond the familiar greens and purples of Earth’s aurora, Jupiter’s polar skies are hiding a secret that has only now ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

In a remarkable new study featured in Physical Review Letters, scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have ...

A teenage boy sits on a diving board above an empty swimming pool. - Tribeca Film Festival Welcome to the weird world of Boys Go to Jupiter, where aliens hang out with delivery boys, juice factories ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near captured imagery of Jupiter and its moons Amalthea and Adrastea on July 27, 2022. Also visible in the false color Near Infrared Camara (NIRCam) images are the gas ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter," Ali Sulaiman, an assistant professor of physics and ...

What can Jupiter’s auroras teach scientists about auroras on other planets? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a new ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.

A new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research.