Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter itself. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is also the only moon known to have its own magnetic field. Volcanoes rage on Io's ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

In the young solar system, the four gas giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn ... constraining both the size of the original parent body and the time it must have taken to cool before being broken ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

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 ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

With a total of 95 moons, Jupiter has once again surpassed Saturn as the planet in our Solar System with the most moons. Saturn, Jupiter’s outer neighbour, currently has 83 known satellites. The four ...

Since the formation of the Solar System ... inwards and outwards from their original positions, a new theory now suggests that the cause could be a 2-50 Jupiter-mass object passing through ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars ... Even higher up, almost directly overhead, will be Jupiter, sparkling at about one-tenth the brightness of Venus.

Giant auroras, raging clouds and a storm three centuries in the making - our solar system's largest planet is every bit as dramatic as its tempestuous appearance suggests. Jupiter, the largest planet ...