Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic flux. Deep inside Jupiter, hydrogen is crushed into a strange liquid metal ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, when Jupiter was still bulking up into the heavyweight of the solar system, it carved a gap in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding the young Sun. At the outer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simulations suggest one dust trap beyond Jupiter formed multiple planetesimal types over millions of years. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / ...

Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 4, 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. ['On This Day in Space' Video Series ...

Because it’s bigger, Jupiter ought to have larger, more spectacular rings than Saturn has. But new UC Riverside research shows Jupiter’s massive moons prevent that vision from lighting up the night ...

Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the origin ...

If you've been waiting with bated breath for scientists to finally point the James Webb space telescope (JWST) at targets within our own solar system, you're in good company—and in luck. New images ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two million years. New simulations suggest the same ring-shaped region sorted and ...