New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. The European Space Agency (ESA ...
But the pinwheel-shaped spacecraft also swung by the south pole of the largest planet in the solar system. NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come ...
It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...
When the flow of that liquid metal changes inside the Earth's core, it can cause the planet's magnetic field ... Sometimes the magnetic North Pole and South Pole do switch places.