A new catalog of variable stars, the vast majority of which are newly discovered, presents opportunities for training machine learning algorithms and studying the structure of our galaxy.
The presence of the Galilean moons may be responsible for Jupiter’s lack of an exceptional ring system, highlighting the complex interplay between rings and moons around giant planets and exoplanets.
Modeling of Voyager 2 images allows researchers to explore the history of the youngest surface features on Uranus’s moon Miranda, which may have experienced heating due to resonance with other moons.
A new study explores the possibility that Europa’s geysers erupt from shallow reservoirs filled with icy liquid — a possibility that upcoming space missions should be able to explore further.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission’s seismic instruments should be able to distinguish between a shell made of pure water ice and one in which methane molecules are trapped within the crystal structure of water ice.
Researchers have digitized measurements from Voyager to provide a new estimate of an important reference temperature in Jupiter’s atmosphere; the new estimate is 4K hotter than the previous temperature.