Using the NIRSpec data, planetary scientists measured the physical properties of the auroral footprints of Jupiter’s two innermost Galilean moons, Io and Europa, including the local temperature and ...

During a 22-hour observing session in September 2023, the team scanned around the edge of Jupiter as the northern lights ...

An international team of scientists, led by a PhD researcher from Northumbria University, has made groundbreaking discoveries ...

North East researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unexpectedly complex behaviour in Jupiter’s northern lights.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of ...

A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast. Io looks scorched and bone-dry, yet it is the most volcanically active moon in ...