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 ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

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 ...

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

one of the building blocks of the solar system, but it’s also known as a minor planet. Either way, it’s the smallest known planetary body to have rings. About 146 miles/235 km in diameter—so ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

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 ...