A distant gas giant, larger than Jupiter, is spiralling towards its death. TOI-2109b, as it’s named, has drawn attention from ...

Look east around 4 a.m. local time, just before dawn, to see the slender form of the crescent moon climb above the horizon.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Two new moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter, bringing the total number of natural satellites orbiting the gas giant ...

"Jupiter is basically an ocean of gas," she said in a statement. Related: During the solar system's chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth's moon. You may like ...

NASA's Juno probe's been studying Jupiter for nine years. Conditions are super harsh, and the camera's been taking a beating.

Since it arrived in 2016 at Jupiter's orbit, the vehicle, which looks something like a three-bladed cosmic fan, has been probing beneath the gas giant's dense clouds seeking answers about the ...

Gas giants like Jupiter usually only form far away from their stars, where things are cool enough for gas to stay safe from blazing solar heat.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun, situated around 484 million miles from our star. At 86,900 miles in diameter, Jupiter is about 11 times wider than the Earth, and has between 80 and 95 moons.

A year after its arrival, Juno zipped past Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a raging storm near the planet's equator. It discovered that this cyclone goes 200 miles deep — that's 50 to 100 times as ...

“Everything about Jupiter is extreme," Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno, said in a statement. “As Juno’s orbit takes us to new regions of Jupiter’s complex system, we’re ...