Confirmed for the first time, Uranus's unique aurora could help astronomers determine if other planets could support life. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries ...

The newly spotted aurora is one of several new developments spotted on Uranus this year alone. In April, the $10 billion Webb Space Telescope imaged the planet’s dusty rings—tough to spot in ...

The rings around the giant planets of the solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — generally fit within the constraints of the Roche ... First Visible Aurora Spotted Over Mars: ...

Behold the first beautiful images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing the giant planet’s incredible storms, cloud bands, faint aurora, rings and tiny moons—and all ...

Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system.

A planet’s moons can also influence its ring system. For example, Jupiter has rings just like the other gas giants, but its rings are smaller and fainter than Saturn's.

When those particles reached the planet, they triggered a rare aurora in Mars's upper atmosphere. Unlike past detections of Martian auroras, which appeared only in ultraviolet light and required ...

A strange phenomenon on Saturn’s rings can only be spotted during its equinox. For the first time in 15 years, it’s back. And scientists are hoping Hubble can finally unlock the mystery.

Beyond our solar system, there’s a whole selection of planets unlike anything we see around the Sun. In the cosmic candy shop, there are Ring Pops (less magnificent versions of Saturn), Hot Tamales ...

Mars (planet) Add Topic. First aurora photo from Mars shows green glow in the sky Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky.

For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings. The rings around Saturn were discovered by an astronomer called Galileo Galilei nearly 400 years ago ...

As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball encircled by gigantic rings. There's nothing else quite like it in the Solar System. Right now, it's hard to ...