Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It fundamentally altered our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

But what the new Webb data had uncovered was different. Rather than spontaneous brightenings which are characteristic of magnetic storms, the auroral emissions were regulated by Saturn’s own rotating ...

Mark your calendars for September 21, 2025, as Saturn will reach opposition, offering a spectacular view of the ringed planet. Earth will pass directl ...

Saturn’s auroras form in the same way as Earth’s northern lights—when external charged particles strike the atmosphere of the planet. But what the new Webb data had uncovered was different.