If Ivar, Em and Quent want to know all about the sun, moon, stars and planets that comprise the universe, who else should they consult but the learned Galileo Smith, a self-proclaimed astronomy ...

Over the years, scientists and inventors such as Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler ... allowing researchers to learn more about the solar system and other celestial formations and events ...

NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

For nearly eight years, the Galileo spacecraft orbited Jupiter ... Callisto has the most-cratered surface in the solar system, suggesting that the moon does not have any geological or weathering ...

Related: Gas giants: Jovian planets of our solar system and beyond Jupiter helped to revolutionize the way we saw the universe — and our place in it — in 1610 when Galileo discovered Jupiter ...

(Galileo picked up on a secondary magnetic ... to maintain a global ocean for the billions of years since the solar system’s birth. Perhaps, as with Europa, scientists don’t quite know where ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

On April 23, NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 ... “In 1608, he wrote a letter to his friend Galileo Galilei: ‘Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings?All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these spectacular structures. Plus, many other objects in the solar system, ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI ... which is installed on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the ...