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

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

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. To put that into context, those ...

It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have ...

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

For the first time, a planet has been discovered orbiting a white dwarf, also known as a dead star. This exoplanet, a planet outside of our solar system, is the size of Jupiter and it's known as WD ...

"This brings us closer to understanding how not only Jupiter but the entire solar system took shape," said Konstantin Batygin, planetary science professor at Caltech and lead author of the study, in a ...

The impacts that started on July 16, 1994 ended on July 22, 1994, were captured by NASA’s Galileo orbiter that was enroute to ...

If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

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

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...