This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

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 ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, five years after it launched from Earth. The craft was sent to the gas giant to explore Jupiter’s origins, evolution, clouds and several moons.

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the ...

The big question will be whether or not scientists can demonstrate that greigite and vivianite need biological life to form.

Stunning new images of Jupiter show its vast swirling clouds in jaw-dropping detail. NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed its 72nd close flyby of the planet on May 7, coming within thousands of kilometres ...

Last chance! A rare plane parade is happening on Aug. 21 and it won't happen again until 2028. Here's when and how stargazers can catch a glimpse of this week's stunning spectacle.