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 ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

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 ...

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

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

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 enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

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

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 ...

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 ...