The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

Jupiter is known for its stormy weather, featuring cyclones, anticyclones, large storms, and ammonia-rich plumes that engulf the planet. The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

ELVIS, or Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, is a holographic microscope that can deliver detailed 3D views of cells and ...

We’re offshore in Florida chasing one of the most electric, hard-fighting fish in the ocean—rainbow mahi mahi—and today, they ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

A team of NASA-funded University of Northern Iowa researchers is exploring some of the deepest caves in the United States to ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees compared to the orbit of its two host stars. The discovery, made using the ...

U.S. Marine major general, former NASA administrator and the spring 2025 commencement speaker — hopes to impart two lessons to graduating Buckeyes during his May 4 speech. Never say never, and never ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...