WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Mercury will meet with Jupiter retrograde, bringing insightful and thought-provoking ideas to the surface Prepare for the ...

A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along with a brown dwarf, each distantly orbiting stars smaller than the sun. Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has returned another spectacular set of images of the giant planet after ... Advanced Projects Manager at Malin Space Science Systems, Inc., which ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planet Jupiter in a color composite of ultraviolet wavelengths. Released on Nov. 3, 2023, in honor of Jupiter reaching opposition, which occurs ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...

This is where multiple planets line up next to each other. On January 21, six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter ... essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...

Hydrogen and helium separate at pressures and temperatures found within the gas giant Jupiter’s marbled exterior ... the conditions inside the planets,” says physicist Marius Millot of ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA.

When Jupiter was young ... investigator on NASA's CLEVER Planets team, which investigates the origins of elements essential to life on young rocky planets. That project, he said, has observed ...