I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

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In a remarkable new study featured in Physical Review Letters, scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have ...

Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to harbor life, with a vast hidden ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter," Ali Sulaiman, an assistant professor of physics and ...

A new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research.

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.

Research offers new insights into protecting Earth from harmful solar radiation. A team at the Twin Cities has identified and studied a previously unknown type of plasma wave within Jupiter’s aurora.

What can Jupiter’s auroras teach scientists about auroras on other planets? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a new ...

Boys Go to Jupiter is an indie animated film about life in central Florida — and also a donut-shaped alien creature.

Rather than being dismissed as a typical asteroid or comet, it caught the attention of controversial Harvard astrophysicist ...