Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...

The discovery of natural satellites on Saturn assists researchers in understanding the dynamics of orbits, resonances, and the stability of planetary systems in general ...

The second planet with the most amount of moons is Jupiter ... into Saturn’s orbit about 100 million years ago. “Many of these moons are rocks only a few miles across – small compared ...

Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn ...

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 new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

The evening planets are much easier to see: Always bright and reliable Jupiter remains ... with feeble Saturn appearing to Venus' lower right and only 1/229 as bright compared to its dazzling ...