Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be passing by Jupiter to "seed" the planet with "technological devices." ...

If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

I/ATLAS is expected to reach its closest distance to Jupiter on March 16, 2026. Its approach may coincide with Jupiters Hill ...

The impacts that started on July 16, 1994 ended on July 22, 1994, were captured by NASA’s Galileo orbiter that was enroute to ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to take shape, a pair of astronomers say. Two scientists at Caltech and the ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the sun ...

Jupiter and its moon Ganymede in 2007. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) One of Jupiter's most baffling mysteries might be solved at last. The problem: Jupiter's upper ...

“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 ...