Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice ...

The findings help clarify how Jupiter's cloud layers and atmospheric dynamics work. The discovery was made by Dr. Steven Hill, an amateur astronomer based in Colorado. He recently showed that ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Jupiter made of gas, not somewhere you can tread. Saturn's got rings, and is gas too, Uranus then Neptune are cold and blue. You should know where all the planets are, They orbit the Sun ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

The team started with a generic CPD made of gas, dust and ice, and then gave it likely characteristics (such as proportions of ice, dust and gas) based on the makeup of Jupiter's moons.

But what if we put an entire planet between Jupiter and Mars? According to UCR astrophysical Stephen Kane, it could have made Earth uninhabitable. The cause of this less habitable Earth would have ...

It is due to reach Jupiter in July 2031 ... These probes, which will characterize plasma and measure radio emissions, are made of titanium grade 5 alloy and have spherical shapes, designed ...