If Saturn's rings are older, they are also easier to explain. The Solar System was much more chaotic billions of years ago, ...

New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...

However, a new team has attempted to model the collisions of micrometeoroids with the ice and rock that make up ... Saturn, gravitational escape or electromagnetic drag into Saturn’s atmosphere ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which began orbiting Jupiter on July 4, 2016, is the first spacecraft to peer below Jupiter’s clouds ...

Maybe you received a telescope during the holiday season, or perhaps you’ve gifted yourself with a scope. I want you to get ...

The atmosphere consists of mostly nitrogen ... The molecule, heavy among the vast body of hydrogen and helium that make up most of Saturn’s heft, plugs heat from dissipating from the core ...

Maybe you received a telescope during the holiday season, or perhaps you’ve gifted yourself a scope. I want you to get as ...

In the Southern Hemisphere they will be lower, and often take on a yellower, larger appearance because the moon's light has to go through more of the atmosphere ... that make up Jason's ship ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...

The simulations then revealed these charged particles mostly either collide with Saturn, escape its gravitational pull, or get dragged into the planet's atmosphere. Very little of this material ...