Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on May 27.

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right." ...

An illustration of Jupiter-sized planet (IMAGE) Michigan State University. Caption. An artist’s conception of the exoplanet K2-33b, a 10 Myr Jupiter-sized planet, transiting ...

After a delay, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, is expected to launch on Friday at 8:14 a.m ET. ... An illustration depicts Juice on its way to Jupiter.

An illustration of the Trojan asteroids as they lead and follow Jupiter. Illustration: NASA Astronomer Marc Buie has been tracing the shadows of a swarm of rocky bodies as they pass in front of ...

Jupiter’s version of the northern lights was discovered nearly 40 years ago. ... An illustration of the chain of events that lead to Jupiter’s powerful, bright auroras.

This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Europa Clipper spacecraft over the moon, Europa, with Jupiter at background left. NASA/JPL-Caltech/AP hide caption toggle caption ...

Jupiter was about twice its current radius and possessed a magnetic field roughly 50 times stronger than today around 3.8 million years after the solar system's first solids formed.

An illustration of Jupiter’s interior layers. One bar is approximately equal to the air pressure at sea level on Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech Scary to the core.

On June 9, the most auspicious planet in the universe makes its most promising jump: Jupiter moves into Cancer. The planet of growth, wisdom, and good luck is exalted in Cancer, which means that this ...