With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth ...

Research by astronomers, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), challenges current theories about the formation of ...

Thanks to your help over the last two years, the Jovian Vortex Hunter project has ... and locations on the planet. For example, your work showed that white and dark vortices are preferentially ...

This group of planets is also known as the ‘Jovian Planets’ after the Roman god Jupiter. Jupiter is roughly 11 times the diameter of Earth, Saturn nine times, and Uranus and Neptune about four ...

At the time of perijove, when Juno’s orbit is closest to the planet’s center ... The Italian Space Agency (ASI) funded the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver ...

Illustration of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop ... You’re looking at its four Galilean Moons, by far the largest of the giant planet’s estimated 79 moons. Their collective ...