The gas giants of our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — together make up ... planets rotate in the same direction as the moons close to their equator (such as the huge ...

Related: Gas giants: Jovian planets of our solar system and beyond ... while Pioneer 11 provided data on the Great Red Spot and close-up pictures of Jupiter's polar regions. Voyagers 1 and 2 ...

The planets divide neatly into two broad categories: terrestrial and jovian. The terrestrial planets ... of the terrestrial worlds. It lies so close to the Sun that observations from Earth reveal ...

up in January 2002. Saturday's flyby provided NASA with many raw images, which it released to citizen scientists for post-processing. Juno's close pass allowed for outstanding high-resolution ...

A Nature Communications paper published on May 23, found that lightning processes on the gas planet ... are very close to these observed on the Earth, but the distribution of Jovian lightning ...

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like ... surface of a planet make up what is known as an atmosphere.

The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours - enough to keep a million humans breathing for a day. On Tuesday, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet ...

The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has turned up more than 4,000 far-flung worlds ... of gas that are about the size of our own Jovian planet but that zing around their stars in less ...