Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and ...

A team of astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to capture new images of a "super-Jupiter" planet – the closest planet of its huge size that scientists have found. The planet is a ...

If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...

Jupiter – the gas giant, largest planet in our solar system, named for the Roman god of the sky who with his fearsome thunderbolt lorded over the entire universe – is about to be a little closer and ...

Jupiter and Mars are about to get up close and personal to one another. Look up to the sky early Wednesday morning and you'll see what astronomers call a planetary conjunction. This is what is ...

Jupiter’s early growth carved rings in the solar system, delayed meteorite formation, and kept planets like Earth in stable ...

Jacob Kegerreis/Thomas Sandnes/Durham University. A new paper led by Dr. Thomas Sandnes, Durham University, and co-authored by an international team of scientists, including SETI Institute Affiliate, ...

Let’s get lucky — and let’s get to listening. At long last, Jupiter — our gas-giant planet of good fortune, abundance, games of chance and inclinations of excess — is going direct in Gemini. After a ...