Jupiter’s skies can glow with lights more intense than anything on Earth. Its polar auroras shine when charged particles crash into its upper atmosphere, creating bursts of heat and energy. These ...

A powerful solar storm has delivered a dramatic blow to Jupiter’s magnetosphere, revealing that even the largest planet in our solar system isn’t immune to the Sun’s ferocity. As detailed in a new ...

Jupiter’s powerful radiation is what attracted Scott ... cells and panels for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and for satellites in Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

In the great tug-of-war between the Sun and its planets, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are much more susceptible to solar ...

But Jupiter’s response shows that even planets far from the Sun can be deeply affected by solar storms. Earth’s magnetic field also faces solar wind storms. These can damage satellites ...

In addition to that, some scientists worry that the amount of metal that will be burning up in Earth's atmosphere as old satellites are deorbited could trigger unpredictable changes to the planet ...

Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites will lift off just a week from now, if all goes according to plan. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to ...

Finance and more. Satellites like the ones used for Starlink’s internet service could be depleting the Earth’s ozone layer when they’re deorbited, according to a new study funded by NASA and ...

But this study shows that solar wind can spread energy far beyond those areas, changing the way heat moves through Jupiter’s ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Umbra, a California-based manufacturer of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites ... funding from multiple entities: the U.S. Space Force SpaceWERX organization, the ...