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 ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Amazon is offering a big price drop on The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy, which includes both extended and theatrical editions, in 4K Ultra HD. Right now you can get this set for ...

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of erupting volcanoes. High-resolution images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers ...

Our current view of Saturn means we're looking at the gas giant's famous rings edge on, making it impossible for telescopes on Earth to see them. This phenomenon is called a "ring plane crossing ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth. Although discovered in 2006, the “free ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

But unlike Jupiter which is deathly cold, HD 189733 b sits closer to its own version of the sun, earning it the common astro-nickname of "hot Jupiter". Even on its dark side, HD 189733 b reaches ...

As both planets complete their solar orbit, the way Saturn's rings look from Earth slowly changes. When Saturn's equator is directly aligned with the Sun, sunlight strikes its rings edge-on ...