On March 4, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint, it's ...

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 ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes ...

To be honest, when I first came across photos of Jupiter and Saturn, I jokingly complained to my friends that these two planets looked like a spilled paint palette. But then I did some research and ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Voyager 1, man's first craft to enter interstellar space, may have gone dark. According toThe New York Times,the Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977, was designed to capture images ...

Ingo Swann psychically “saw” Jupiter’s rings in 1973—years before NASA. From CIA-funded experiments to Project Stargate, his ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter 45 years ago, capturing iconic footage. The Voyager probe's movie of Jupiter made history, revealing the planet like never before. See how those images ...

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 ...

There are jets in Jupiter’s magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream. You may remember Voyager 2. It ...

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively ...