February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

The rings of Jupiter might not be as spectacular ... first space rock ever directly observed hitting another Solar System body, Jupiter – left behind a stream of dust within the area of ...

Juno is also returning images unlike any we've ever seen, including of Jupiter's ring system. Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an ...

Each of the four gas giants in the Earth’s solar system — Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter — are surrounded by rings made up of “billions of particles of rock, ice and dust,” as ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

The Juno mission has been studying the Jovian system—Jupiter, along with its rings and many moons—to learn about the giant ...

these moon rings were stable — particularly Jupiter’s Iapetus. Even Earth's moon had a 95% chance of supporting a stable ring system in the simulations. "[W]e did not anticipate that moons in ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...

Venus and Jupiter dance in January's evening skies ... Saturn, always a favorite for viewers with telescopes because of its famous ring system, is not far from Venus, though appearing only ...

A powerful adaptive optics system compensates ... and the white ring around Pillan Patera, to the right of Pele. Io is volcanic because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter and three of its ...

Saturn’s were the first rings seen through telescopes from ... All the other planets in the solar system can fit inside Jupiter. The Solar System is ancient. To put it into perspective, if ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot ...