Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

“There, by one of Nature’s supreme jests, was something very precious to mankind,” Clarke writes. “The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.” We have fallen ...

NASA has been flying spacecraft by Jupiter since the '70s. But no spacecraft quite compares to Juno. Juno is NASA's latest Jupiter mission, and it has shown us a completely new perspective of the ...

“Based on the Juno radio occultations, we find that the size of Jupiter is smaller, more oblate, because at the equator, the ...

On the night of April 20, two of Earth’s interstellar neighbors will hang out in the evening sky — and you can admire them with your own two eyes, or better yet, a pair of binoculars. The two will ...

When Jupiter was still forming 4.5 billion years ago, something giant likely crashed into the planet and disrupted the process, according to a new study. When Jupiter was still forming 4.5 billion ...

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 ...

One of Jupiter's northern circumpolar cyclones in artistically enhanced detail and in false color, as processed by Navaneeth Krishnan S from the raw data provided by NASA's Juno spacecraft on November ...