In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

It was May 2013, and the Kepler space telescope was dead. The Kepler planet-hunting mission had been discovering new planets since its launch in 2009, but in May 2013 the second of its four reaction ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Benjamin Roulston is Assistant Professor of Physics, ...