Eventually, the gas turns into a form of liquid hydrogen ... Jupiter has altered the orbit of asteroids and comets for billions of years. Without Jupiter’s intervention, some of that space ...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27, all we got was a fuzzy image of the gas giant from a glancing angle. But now scientists behind the mission are starting to trickle ...

One of them is Jupiter. Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

Core accretion is one theory put forward to explain the development of Jupiter and Saturn. Another theorized process of gas giant formation posits they form out of condensing gasses left over from ...

Until now, researchers have been able to determine the atmospheric chemical composition for some planets outside our solar system - called exoplanets - but without ... Jupiter," a class of large ...

Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 miles per hour, NASA's $1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24. But the sun slipped between the giant planet ...

Europa Clipper, a NASA spacecraft named after the Jupiter moon it will study, could launch as soon as mid-October, beginning the journey to reveal if this suspected waterworld might support life.

The fifth rock from the sun and the biggest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is what’s known as a gas giant – a ball of hydrogen and helium – unlike rocky Earth and Mars. Jupiter is an ...