The rings of Jupiter might not be as spectacular as Saturn’s (whose are?) but they are there. However, one of them may not ...

Jupiter may have gained a brand new ring when it was struck by a comet in the '90s, an ancient tablet found by fishers in ...

Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively causing them to vanish.

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

Jupiter will rise opposite the sun this weekend, making the gas giant appear even brighter and larger in our sky.

The innermost ring has a diameter of 792 kilometres and ... an asteroid that orbits the Sun from way out beyond Jupiter and Neptune. It’s the biggest Centaur we’ve found so far, but from ...

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 other largest moons—Europa, Ganymede and Callisto ...

Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn are all visible in our evening sky. Around 9 p.m., look to the east for Mars, an orange “guest star ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly ...