A long-standing mystery about the presence of hydrogen peroxide on Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa may be closer to being solved.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected a previously unknown type of plasma wave above Jupiter’s north pole, revealing an ...

On Sunday, Jupiter will reach its closest distance to Earth in 59 years at around 367 million miles. On Monday, the gas giant will reach opposition, meaning it will appear opposite the sun to ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet in our solar system. It used to be known as the planet with the second-most moons with 80, trailing only Saturn with 83.

One of Jupiter’s most recognizable attributes is its sheer size.With a diameter over 88,800 miles, our solar system’s largest planet is 11 times as wide as Earth and twice as massive as all ...

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 ...