NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere on August 17, 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing ...

Imagine a world where energy shortages are a relic of the past, where the grid never falters, and where the sun shines not ...

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On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...

Energy powers everything we do, and for most of humanity's 300,000-year history, that energy has come from boring old biomass. Grains, nuts, berries, and meat fueled our muscles. Wood burned in fires.

Understanding how wind changes in response to global warming is necessary for accurately modeling climate and weather, ...

Energy powers everything we do, and for most of humanity’s 300,000-year history, that energy has come from boring old biomass. Grains, nuts, berries, and meat fueled our muscles. Wood burned in fires.

Sitting more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not expected to be particularly warm. Based on the amount of sunlight received, the average temperature in the planet’s ...