(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing and analyzing the first new type of plasma wave in Jupiter’s aurora. This ...

Space telescopes don't take holidays off, which is why Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope's powerful instruments were trained on Jupiter on Christmas Day 2023, capturing some of the most detailed ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of an aurora on a brown dwarf. Typically, a key ingredient to produce aurora is high-energy particles from a star. But this ...

The decades-old mystery of how Jupiter produces a burst of X-rays every few minutes has been solved by scientists. The X-rays are part of the giant planet’s aurora – bursts of visible and invisible ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully found and characterised the auroral “footprints” of Jupiter’s moon Callisto for the first time. This discovery completes the “family portrait” of auroral ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

We all know Earth’s own little aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, is pretty spectacular. But did you know we aren’t the only planet in our solar system that hosts it’s own “fireworks party” on a ...

Juno capturing the marks on Jupiter of all four Galilean moons. The auroras related to each are labeled Io, Eur (for Europa), Gan (for Ganymede), and Cal (for Callisto). (Image: ...