Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

The solar system is home to bizarre moons like Enceladus and Callisto, each unveiling nature’s wonders and some of science’s ...

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

Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...