North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern ...

A composite of two observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show Jupiter's aurora.NASA/ESA/J. Nichols (University of Leicester) An astronomer's map of a heat wave on Jupiter helped solve the ...

Space weather creates the Northern Lights on Earth, and more recently, aurora lights on Uranus helped NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what ...

Aurora surrounding the night side of Mars have been photographed by the United Arab Emirates Hope probe, currently in orbit around the Red Planet. The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary ...

When astronomers are searching the depths of space for new objects it's typically easier to find undiscovered planets if they're orbiting a star. That's because spotting the dips in the star's ...

On Earth they produce mesmerising riots of colour that light up the night sky around the poles. But our planet is not the only world to enjoy stunning aurora – better known as the northern and ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the sun ...