Technically, Jupiter does have a ring system, it is just incredibly small and faint. Indeed, Jupiter’s rings are so small that scientists did not even discover them until 1979 , when the space ...

Just recently on the blog I posted a series of images of Jupiter taken by JWST, some of which showed Jupiter’s faint ring. I don’t think a lot of people know that all four giant planets in our ...

Until now, astronomers were puzzled as to why Jupiter doesn’t have larger rings, but a new preprint study released on July 13 suggests it may have to do with the gas giant’s moons. Jupiter, in ...

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

Jupiter's rings are thin, gauzy structures of dust that can't compete with Saturn's stunning icy rings. New research now tells us why the bigger planet doesn't have bigger rings.

Though Jupiter does have faint, nebulous rings — as seen in recent images from the James Webb Space Telescope — they aren't nearly as prominent as those of Saturn or Uranus. In fact, they are ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the ...

NASA released new images of Jupiter on Monday, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.; The infrared images show detailed views of the gas giant's auroras, rings, and moons.

The rings of Jupiter might not be as spectacular as Saturn’s (whose are?) but they are there. However, one of them may not have existed before just a few decades ago. A new hypothesis suggests ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Jupiter does have rings, but they are so faint they are often invisible. Now researchers have a theory about why.

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 ...