Warm Jupiters are rewriting the rules of planet formation - showing eccentric orbits that stay strangely aligned with their stars.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

Jupiter is not quite as large as astronomers thought, according to the first measurements of its radius taken in more than 40 years. Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like ...

The predawn hours of Aug. 8 present a perfect opportunity to see Jupiter's four largest moons line up next to the "King of the Planets" as it voyages through the stars of the constellation Gemini.

The moon, just hours past its last quarter phase, will rise above the east-northeastern horizon shortly before midnight local time. Shining about 6 degrees to its right will be Jupiter, the largest ...

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