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ByThis is because these cores are so dense, just a spoonful of their material would weigh billions of tons on Earth. Astronomers also expect short...

ByMorgan McFall-Johnsen, Business Insider NASA's Juno spacecraft just captured images of colourful bursts of lightning-like electricity high in Jupiter's atmosphere. These phenomena, which include jellyfish-shaped 'sprites'...

ByMichelle Starr Titan, the already pretty weird moon of Saturn, just got a little bit weirder. Astronomers have detected cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) in its atmosphere -...

ByIf life does exist on Venus, NASA may have detected it some 42 years ago. In recent weeks interest in life on Venus has...

Evan Gough, Universe Today If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once they've...

Michelle Starr Aurora - the dancing glow of ionised particles in Earth's upper atmosphere - is not unique to our planet. The phenomenon has been spotted...

Michelle Starr From 7 billion light-years away, a pair of colliding black holes has delivered up, on a shiny gravitational wave platter, one of the...

There's a lot going on in the centre of our galaxy. The Milky Way's core is home to a supermassive black hole as massive...

Common chemicals nicknamed 'forever chemicals' for their tendency to stick around in the environment for a disconcertingly long time have been detected in Arctic...

This year's swarms of ants appear to have come thick and fast. The Met Office has had small 'rain' alerts in dry parts of the...

A man alerted to movement on his security camera while away from home believes he has filmed "ghosts" in his living room. The home owner,...

NASA said: "At the time the images were taken, Juno was between about 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometres) and 59,000 miles (95,000 kilometres) from the...

A mysterious increase in radiation levels over northern Europe was detected this month by authorities from several countries, although no nation has yet come...

On 15 September 2017, NASA's Cassini Orbiter concluded its mission by diving into Saturn's atmosphere. Over the course of the 13 years it spent studying the Saturn system,...

Every second, trillions upon trillions of incredibly low-mass subatomic particles called neutrinos shoot out from the Sun and slide undetected through your body. These neutrinos...

This has until now never been witnessed in other planets' atmosphere.Their surface is either too bright in contrast or space missions have lacked sensors...