Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in early 2024, a Southwest Research Institute-led team identified electrons with ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The planet's fast spin on its axis means that one Jupiter day lasts less than 10 Earth hours, and it sparks electrical currents that may drive the planet's intense and massive magnetic field ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary ...

The Sun also generates a magnetic field because of the motion of charged particles in the plasma of its interior. Jupiter’s magnetic field is so strong that it’s second only to that of the Sun ...

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when energetic particles from the Sun are trapped by a planet’s magnetic field.

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The gas and ice giants have intense magnetic fields, far stronger than Earth’s. A compass near Jupiter, for instance, would be overwhelmed by the planet’s complex and extremely powerful magnetosphere ...

the outermost of Jupiter’s 95 moons, first caught NASA’s attention back in the 1990s when the Galileo spacecraft detected an unusual response to the planet’s shifting magnetic field.

My research interests are in the magnetic fields of planets, planetary plasmas and the interaction of planetary objects - from giant Jupiter down to tiny comets - with the solar wind or magnetospheric ...

This gives Jupiter a powerful magnetic field, with an influence stretching for millions of kilometres beyond the planet. Electrically-charged particles, some from the Sun and others from Jupiter's ...

This gives Jupiter a powerful magnetic field, with an influence stretching for millions of kilometres beyond the planet. Electrically-charged particles, some from the Sun and others from Jupiter's ...