Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, is 11 times wider than Earth, and has a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

The bold question-askers at What If uncover how Jupiter's massive power influenced the formation of Earth and even life itself.

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

In July 1994, astronomers witnessed something unprecedented: a comet colliding with a planet in real-time. Shoemaker-Levy 9’s ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiraling toward its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ways.

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses no threat to Earth.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...