Jupiter has 80 known moons, with more still being discovered by astronomers and amateur sky-watchers alike. That’s second only to Saturn’s 83 moons in our Solar System. The below video does a cool ...

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct structure. Jupiter's gravity, often called the "architect" of our solar system ...

An animation posted to Twitter has shocked social media users by showing the impressive size of Jupiter and just how rapidly the solar system's largest planet rotates. The animation posted by ...

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Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins. Recently, researchers uncovered groundbreaking details that shed fresh ...

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

Berkeley — Something slammed into Jupiter in the last few days, creating a dark bruise about the size of the Pacific Ocean. The bruise was noticed by an amateur astronomer on Sunday, July 19. UC ...

After discovering scores of oddball planets around distant stars in recent years, astronomers have finally detected something that looks familiar: a family of planets that includes one roughly ...

In the hostile environment of the ‘galactic bulge’ at the heart of our galaxy, scientists have spotted a planet so big it might not actually be a planet. A large international team of researchers ...

Data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the past 20 years show Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking at an increasing rate to its current, and smallest, recorded size. The reduction ...

You'd be right to doubt whether or not Jupiter actually orbits the sun, or if you could survive the planet's sickening radiation belt, but make no mistake about its size. At more than 89,000 miles in ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...