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A passing star may have kicked the solar system's weirdest moons into place
A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.
Volcanoes may help reveal interior heat on Jupiter moon
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...
Why this fall will be a magnificent time to gaze into the night sky
Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give ...
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Why Do So Many Tiny Asteroids Have Moons?
You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...
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Jupiter-bound JUICE probe snaps photo of Earth, the moon and Uranus
Update for Sept. 20: This story was updated after ESA released another image of Earth and the moon as seen by JUICE's JANUS scientific camera, which was designed to take high-resolution photos of ...
As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
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John Wheeler: Earth will have two moons for a while this fall
John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in ...
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A new volcano was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io, after 27 years
Photos from the Juno probe show a new volcano on Io, a moon of Jupiter. As observed through satellite monitoring, the ...
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Discovery of new volcano on Jupiter's moon Io by Juno probe
Photos from the Juno probe show a new volcano on Io, a moon of Jupiter. The volcanic complex has developed over the last 27 ...
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Brand New Volcano Spotted On Jupiter’s Io – And It's A Big One
There are hundreds of active volcanoes on Io. The new one is located just south of Io’s equator and the Juno images show ...
Europa Clipper mission set to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon; here’s all you need to know
NASA plans to launch the Europa Clipper mission on October 10, 2024, targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The mission seeks ...
SpaceX to launch NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft to study Jupiter moon
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket will launch from the Kennedy Space Center with the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a ...