Jupiter isn't just the largest and most massive planet in the solar system — now, the gas giant also boasts the largest number of moons orbiting it after scientists discovered another 12 moons, bringing the behemoth's total up to 92. The orbits of the 12 hitherto undiscovered moons of Jup...
What Do We Know about the Moon?你了解月亮吗?Most planets in the solar system have got solar system 太阳系moons. Because our planet, Earth, has only one planet n. 行星moon, we call it the Moon. Although it's one of the largest moons in the solar system, the Moon is smaller than al...
Saturn has just become the new king of moons in our Solar System. As first reported by New Scientist, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced the confirmation of 28 new satellites around the ringed planet. This takes Saturn’s total moon count to 117, passing Jupiter’s ...
It’s the largest moon of Saturn, and the only rocky world in the solar system other than the Earth and Venus to host a substantial atmosphere. And it shares something else in common with our planet: it’s the only other world to host liquids on its surface, which is quite a ...
— Massive, months-long volcanic eruption roils Jupiter's moon Io —See Jupiter's volcanic moon Io glow red-hot in incredible images from NASA's Juno probe — Juno: Taking a Long Look at Jupiter And the Caltech professor isn't done with Io yet, either. After answering ...
The sun may be the most massive object in the solar system — it contains 99.8 percent of the mass of the entire system — but on a stellar scale, it's really
We conclude that Uranus and Neptune, like Saturn, had massive rings in the past, from which their regular satellites formed, and that satellite formation from the spreading of a tidal disk is thus a generic mechanism in the whole Solar System. 展开 ...
Turned into a Popsicle on the Coldest Moon in the Solar System Neptune got a little greedy in the satellite sweepstakes, and ended up with 13 moons. One of these moons, Triton, is among the coldest places in the solar system, with surface temperatures of around -391 degr...
suggesting it might have the same type of orbit that most of them do. The orbital similarities shown by many of the known small, distant Solar System bodies was thecatalystfor our original assertion that there is a distant, massive planet at several hundred AU shepherding these smaller objects...
In April, the European Space Agency is sending a spacecraft to Jupiter to study the planet and some of its biggest, icy moons. And next year, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper to explore Jupiter’s moon of the same name, which could harbor an ocean beneath its frozen crust. ...