The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

The dividing line between gas giant planets and failed stars is blurry at best. The isolated planetary-mass object SIMP ...

is a vast ball of gas double the size of Jupiter, and it orbits its star extremely closely, completing a full orbit in just 30 Earth hours. This close orbit heats the planet’s atmosphere to ...

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, a new study published in Nature Astronomy using data from Juno suggests that Jupiter’s atmosphere includes around 0.25% water ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered atmosphere of one such ultra-hot Jupiter-size exoplanet, revealing powerful winds ...

WASP-121b is classified as an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant that ... have uncovered an entirely new type of jet stream in the exoplanet’s atmosphere. Unlike anything seen on Earth or any ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

The spacecraft will also explore Jupiter's complex environment and its system (atmosphere, ring system, and magnetic environment) as a model for other gas giants in our solar system—these being ...

New observations confirm a dynamic and complex atmosphere with shifting temperatures ... The object, with a mass of approximately 13 times that of Jupiter, is only 20 light-years away in the ...