This space wallpaper is an illustration showing a "hot Jupiter" planet known as HD 189733b orbiting its star, HD 189733. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope measured the actual visible light color ...

HD 189733b is a 'hot Jupiter' planet The planet is categorized as a " hot Jupiter," meaning it is a gas giant similar to Jupiter but much hotter due to it being close to a star, NASA said.

An enormous alien planet — one that is 11 times more massive than Jupiter — was discovered in the most distant orbit yet found around a single parent star. The newfound exoplanet, dubbed HD ...

Closest exoplanet to Earth Exoplanets describe planets that exist outside of Earth's solar system. None of them are particularly close, but HD 189733 b is one of the closest ones at around 64 ...

While other exoplanets are closer to Earth, HD 189733 b is the closest hot Jupiter-style planet in our cosmic neighborhood. Earthlings won't be colonizing that planet any time soon and it's not ...

A new snapshot of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, reveals details of the great planet. Scientists use images like this to determine wind speeds, identify atmospheric phenomena and ...

17-year-old NASA intern discovers rare new planet As if its deadly weather wasn't bad enough, scientists this week said a Jupiter-sized planet 64 light-years from Earth reeks of rotten eggs. HD ...

HD 80606 b was considered the planet with the most eccentric orbit until the recent discovery. HD 80606 b has an eccentricity of 0.93 and a shorter orbit of 111 days, and it orbits in the same ...

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 ...

Last week, Mars drew close to Earth. This week, Jupiter and Venus are putting on a show of their own. When you look to the western sky tonight, you'll see two bright points of light among the ...

The color-enhanced image was taken at 11:31 p.m. PDT on May 23, 2018 (2:31 a.m. EDT on May 24), as the spacecraft performed its 13th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 44,300 ...

Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...