China's growing space ambitions

A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft blasts off in Gansu province, China, in October 2025 (Photo: ...
Gizmodo

Jupiter Mission Captures Rare Shot of Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas on Its Way Out

Interstellar visitor comet 3I/Atlas may have bid farewell to Earth, but spacecraft traveling through the solar system kept a close watch on the mysterious traveler. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...
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What Galileo found that still doesn’t add up

Europa sits inside Jupiter’s radiation belts—an environment that can fry spacecraft electronics fast. So NASA designed Europa Clipper to avoid orbiting Europa, instead looping around Jupiter and ...
AOL

New Study Changes Everything We Knew About Jupiter

An image of Jupiter in space, a gas planet with stripes of brown, white, red, and orange - Alones/Shutterstock Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant so massive in scale that ...
New Scientist

Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior

Five volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io erupted all at once in a cataclysm of lava. This means that they are probably all connected to the same underground magma network, which will help solve the mystery ...
AOL

Is Jupiter smaller than we thought? NASA spacecraft makes new find

Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, is not as big as we thought. For more than half-a-century, astronomers thought they had a good idea of the gas giant's shape and size. Now, a fresh ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Say That Jupiter—the Solar System’s Largest Planet—Might Be Slightly Smaller Than Previously Thought

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...
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Life-friendly molecules are leaking out of Jupiter's giant moon Europa, Galileo images hint

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ammonia-bearing compounds ...
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NASA's Juno finds Jupiter is a tiny bit smaller than previously thought

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever so small an amount - as scientists had ...
Inside Edition

Authorities Probe Alleged Ransom Note For Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping

Police are working to trace the source of the ransom note demanding millions of dollars in Bitcoin for the return of Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy. The email was sent to a local TV station in Tucson ...
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Tiny probe monitors unborn baby’s health inside womb during surgery

A tiny new probe can monitor an unborn baby's health inside the womb during surgery. It is the first device capable of continuously tracking the vital signs of a fetus while still in the uterus, say ...