A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

Let’s get lucky — and let’s get to listening. At long last, Jupiter — our gas-giant planet of good fortune, abundance, games of chance and inclinations of excess — is going direct in Gemini. After a ...

Jacob Kegerreis/Thomas Sandnes/Durham University. A new paper led by Dr. Thomas Sandnes, Durham University, and co-authored by an international team of scientists, including SETI Institute Affiliate, ...

A team of astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to capture new images of a "super-Jupiter" planet – the closest planet of its huge size that scientists have found. The planet is a ...

It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have ...

The atmospheres of alien planets can now be probed even if they are not illuminated by stars directly behind them, astronomers say. A new method used to scan the atmosphere of a distant "hot Jupiter" ...

A planet 100 light-years away that resembles a young Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of astronomers that includes six UCLA scientists. The discovery is reported Aug. 13 in the ...

Keep a close look at the sky and you may what looks like a 'Christmas Star' Keep a close look at the night sky in December and you may see a rare occurrence between the two biggest planets in our ...