Vibrations drive X-ray flares in Jupiter’s aurora
Simultaneous observations by NASA’s Juno and ESA’s XMM Newton satellites shed light on 40-year-old mystery
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Microlensing reveals free-floating planets alone in deep space
Astronomers find evidence for four Earth-sized planets wandering freely through space, unbound to any host star
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Huge Oort Cloud object has been spotted entering the outer solar system
Comet-like object was revealed in data from the Dark Energy Survey
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Electrons ‘surf’ on Alfvén waves in plasma-chamber experiments
Research explains how aurora-creating particles are accelerated
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Smartphones could create distributed space weather observatory
Data taken by magnetometers could illuminate solar storms
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Irregularly shaped Moon dust creates complex scattering effects
Tomography technique measures the shape of lunar soil particles in rich detail
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X-ray emissions from Uranus are detected for the first time
Source of three faint signals remains a mystery
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Super Earth is astronomer’s dream for atmospheric studies
Puffed up atmosphere of Gliese 486b is ideal for spectroscopic measurements
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Mysterious moons Phobos and Deimos formed from the same body, say researchers
Breakup of larger body, not asteroid capture, created curious orbits
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The race to discover superheavy elements, a dinosaur killer and other visitors from outer space
In this week’s podcast we chat about making new isotopes and what to do if you find a meteorite
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