Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a ...

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

Solar activity includes phenomena such as sunspots ... It aims to advance our understanding of the Solar System and lower the barrier for operating in space. The program began operations with ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

In an "idea paper" published on December 18 in Nature, UC Santa Cruz Professor Francis Nimmo and his co-authors propose a ...

Most of this activity lacks sufficient punch to harm us… but every now and then, the Sun erupts with a flare powerful enough ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

Io, roughly the size of Earth's Moon, is home to approximately 400 volcanoes that continuously erupt, contributing to its ...

NASA’s Juno mission uncovers the true source of Io’s volcanic activity, revealing localized magma chambers instead of a ...