According to the new data, Jupiter's radius measures 71,488 kilometers (44,421 miles) at its equator, and the planet rises 66 ...

Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what would it actually be like to live on one of these moons? Let’s imagine ...

The balloon-based EXCITE mission measures infrared phase curves of hot Jupiter exoplanets to map temperature and atmospheric composition from long-duration Antarctic flights.

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

Between 7 satellite fly-bys and 2 dedicated missions, you'd think our knowledge about Jupiter would be pretty solid, but we're still learning more.

The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.

When a spacecraft slips behind Jupiter, something counterintuitive occurs: when we lose the signal the measurement is then ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

Beneath the clouds, Jupiter holds oxygen, making itself richer in oxygen than the Sun, says a new report published on Jan. 8 in the Planetary Science Journal. Astronomers have been treated to ...