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It's an enormous natural laboratory. At Jupiter‘s north pole, powerful storms the size of Australia or bigger are wrapped in 100 mph winds. After analyzing years of data from NASA‘s Juno mission, scientists have observed the long-term movements of its huge polar cyclone, along with the eight others surrounding it. Meanwhile, …

“You see a beautiful planet and a borderless world.”

The drill is free at last. NASA‘s Perseverance rover almost had to let go of a precious drill bit on Mars after an attempt to collect a rock sample went awry. For the past week, the car-sized lab on wheels seemed to remain in its location on the rim of …

“I'm willing to fall on my sword.” In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble Space Telescope‘s research program, was paid two visits by the renowned astronomer John Bahcall, considered one of Hubble’s founding fathers. Bahcall had, in hindsight, a strange request. He urged …