New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth. The breathtaking displays, captured on Christmas Day ...

A massive, fast-orbiting planet is inching closer to its star, and scientists now have direct evidence of its impending ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

NASA’s Juno probe is still out there in space, orbiting Jupiter and sending back incredible images of our solar system's largest planet. For years we’ve known that its surface is a tempestuous ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per ...

Habitable zones and planet formation When factoring in this super-Earth data, the team calculated that there should be around 0.35 super-Earth planets per star on wide Jupiter -like orbits.

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 ...

Weighing in at 2.5 times the mass of the rest of the solar system planets, Jupiter ... super-Earths to Neptune. Studying these distant worlds may help determine how planets in the solar system formed.

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 ...