"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 ...

A hot Jupiter-like planet, is causing its young solar system to erupt with solar flares, potentially leading to the planet's ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

In addition, Jupiter is at its closest to Earth just one day earlier, on Friday, December 6. This happens because, although Earth and Jupiter both have orbits around the sun that are almost ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact.

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has watched Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) oscillating, as though it were being squeezed in and out roughly every 90 days. Why this huge anticyclone, which has ...

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to take shape, a pair of astronomers say. Two scientists at Caltech and ...

Jupiter is known as the king of planets. The swirling gas giant could fit 1,000 Earths inside it. It's an absolute unit, a beautiful chonk. This Saturday, Dec. 7, brings the best Jupiter viewing ...

Today, Jupiter remains the largest planet in the solar system, but its current volume could "only" hold around 1,321 Earths. Over time, the young planet cooled, radiated away its heat, and ...