A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

Tasked to look at Earth, Japan's Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully repurposed to observe changes in Venus' cloud-top ...

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in elliptical trajectories, and they are all different in size, composition, ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...