NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, ...

A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast.

Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent ...

Enceladus’s geysers power vast electromagnetic wave systems that redistribute energy throughout Saturn’s magnetosphere.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft detected an electrical circuit linking Saturn to its small moon Enceladus, revealing an invisible electromagnetic structure that stretches across hundreds of thousands of ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

It’s taken a while, but people who proposed optimistic timelines for crewed missions to Mars and colonies on the Moon are starting to acknowledge these things are much harder than they claimed.

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants. Reading time 3 minutes Jupiter’s moon Io is covered in hundreds of ...

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the reentry of a specific ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...