On March 4, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint, it's ...
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center ...
Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...
What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...
If you've been waiting with bated breath for scientists to finally point the James Webb space telescope (JWST) at targets within our own solar system, you're in good company—and in luck. New images ...
In September's planetary opera, Jupiter remains sharp, and Saturn 's ring cycle goes flat. Jupiter is ascending the east-southeastern sky at dusk. This large gaseous planet is brilliant (negative ...
Juno's latest extension broadened its mission from studying Jupiter's interior and magnetosphere to include the planet's rings and observations of its large moons. "By extending the science goals of ...
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