Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers ...

The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window narrows as the Sun sets later each day. Mars is past its best, but remains ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, captivates scientists with its massive size, stunning rings, and diverse moons.

In the great tug-of-war between the Sun and its planets, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are much more susceptible to solar ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

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 ...

The recent and much-ballyhooed "planetary parade" was an interesting ... Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with our unaided eyes as they revolve around the sun. Each of these planets appears to move ...

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 ...

The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand ... and so were 12 other moons. Saturn’s rings will be edge-on twice in 2025, in March and November. From 2019 to 2023, Jupiter and Saturn were ...