Among the surprises from these missions, the data revealed that giant Jupiter sports thin, dusty rings. Planet Jupiter, explained And when NASA's Juno spacecraft began orbiting Jupiter in 2016 ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Jupiter's rings aren't as famous as Saturn's but they're just as fascinating! Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science Jupiter's rings aren't as famous as ...

However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet ... is the second-biggest moon in the solar system, after Jupiter's Ganymede. It's also larger than the planet Mercury.

Jupiter begins to relinquish its dominance of ... sky and teams with a much fainter Saturn early in the month. Saturn's rings are turned nearly edgewise to the sun and Earth and are all but ...

Juno is also returning images unlike any we've ever seen, including of Jupiter's ring system. Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an ...

Using a 36-inch telescope mounted in a NASA aircraft flying 41,000 feet above the Indian Ocean, Cornell University researchers unexpectedly discover five thin rings circling the planet Uranus on ...