A "Jupiter" hotter than the sun
The search for exoplanets—planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system—is a hot topic in astrophysics. Of the various types of exoplanets, one is hot in the literal sense: hot Jupiters, a class of exoplanets that are ph.....»»
NASA’s skywatching tips for July feature stars called Regulus and Fomalhaut
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and stars feature in NASA's latest roundup of ideas on what to look out for in the night sky over the coming weeks......»»
A Grid Collapse Would Make a Heat Wave Far Deadlier
Climate change is making summers hotter, blackouts more common, and heat-related illness more dangerous. The power system may be resilient—but it still has vulnerabilities......»»
Paper suggests there could be captured planets in the Oort cloud
Our solar system has had a chaotic past. Earth and the other planets are now in stable orbits, but while they were forming they experienced drastic location shifts. Jupiter was likely much closer to the sun than it is now, and its shift not only shif.....»»
Gorgeous images of Jupiter’s cloud tops snapped by Juno spacecraft
The Juno spacecraft made its 49th close flyby of Jupiter earlier this year, and NASA has shared stunning images taken as it whizzed by the planet's cloud tops......»»
Better climate modeling and data can help Baltimore weather a hotter, stormier future
If you were to stand at the intersection of Maryland Avenue and West 24th Street in Baltimore's Old Goucher neighborhood and travel back in time 10 years, you would probably be shocked at the transformation. Back then, pavement blanketed the neighbor.....»»
Jupiter"s moon Europa may have had a slow evolution
Jupiter's moon, Europa, is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon and is one of the most promising places to search for alien life......»»
Dog bites may be more common on hot and polluted days, according to new study
Dog bites may occur more frequently—by up to 11%—on days with hotter, sunnier weather, and when air pollution levels are higher, suggests a paper published in Scientific Reports. However, the authors caution that more data and further research is.....»»
Researchers: Hotter sand from microplastics could affect sea turtle development
New research from Florida State University published in Frontiers in Marine Science found that extreme concentrations of microplastics could increase the temperature of beach sand enough to threaten the development of incubating sea turtles......»»
Astronomers observe giant tails of helium escaping Jupiter-like planet
A team of astronomers has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory to discover some of the longest tails of gas yet observed escaping a planet......»»
Apple didn’t make Siri a ChatGPT killer at WWDC — and that scares me
Thanks to ChatGPT and other services, the AI race is hotter than ever. But Apple and Siri are still noticeably absent — and it's not a good look......»»
Astronomers discover a new "warm Jupiter" on an eccentric and misaligned orbit
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new "warm Jupiter" exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1859 b, orbits its parent star on an eccentric and misaligned orbit. The finding is report.....»»
Soaring rhetoric: NASA mission will carry Poet Laureate Ada Limón"s words to Jupiter
A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth......»»
New research suggests wheat crops may be threatened by unprecedented heat and drought
The world is getting hotter, causing shifts in seasonal patterns and increasing the amount of extreme weather such as severe droughts and heat waves, which can affect crop yields and food supplies. A recent study led by a researcher at the Friedman S.....»»
NASA’s June skywatching tips include Mars in the Beehive
NASA's skywatching tips for June include the spectacle of Mars among the Beehive Cluster, and Saturn and Jupiter rising with the crescent moon......»»
Juice spacecraft has overcome its stuck antenna issue and is ready for Jupiter
The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft is now fully deployed and on its way to study the icy moons of Jupiter......»»
The case of the missing Jupiters: Gas giant planets are a no-show around small red stars
Astronomers have revealed that the smallest and most common kinds of stars in the universe, called red dwarfs, very rarely host big, Jupiter-like planets. This absence of Jupiter analogs could have major impacts on the development of Earth-like plane.....»»
Small fusion experiment hits temperatures hotter than the sun"s core
To produce commercial energy, future fusion power plants will need to achieve temperatures of 100 million degrees C. To do so requires careful control of the plasma. In a study published in the journal Nuclear Fusion, researchers refined operating co.....»»
Juice"s final deployments complete: Ready for study of Jupiter
Flight controllers at ESA's mission control center in Germany have been busy this week, working with instrument teams on the final deployments to prepare ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) for exploring Jupiter......»»
Data from Juno suggest lightning on Jupiter pulses in ways similar to lightning on Earth
A team of space scientists affiliated with several institutions in Czechia, Japan and the U.S. has found evidence of lightning pulses on Jupiter that are similar to those found on Earth. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Communications,.....»»
Research "solves" mystery of Jupiter"s stunning color changes
Academics at the University of Leeds believe they could have found the answer to a long-running mystery behind Jupiter's famous "stripes.".....»»