Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Unlike Earth and other rocky planets, Jupiter lacks a solid surface. It’s composed entirely of gas and liquid, making it impossible to land on or walk across. Largest Planet in the Solar System ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

When Jupiter was young, about 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet with 10 times the mass of Earth crashed head-on into its surface. The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the ...

NASA's Juno Probe captured a cloud formation on Jupiter resembling a dolphin, seen by Brian Swift and Sean Doran. This phenomenon, called pareidolia, is the brain's tendency to recognize familiar ...