At first glance, giant planets called super-Jupiters might seem like close cousins of Jupiter. Some are even ten times more ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new cold "super Jupiter" exoplanet, marking the closest of its kind ever found to us. The new planet, named Eps Ind Ab, orbits a star called Epsilon Indi A, only ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

It was May 2013, and the Kepler space telescope was dead. The Kepler planet-hunting mission had been discovering new planets since its launch in 2009, but in May 2013 the second of its four reaction ...

The shocking findings were part of a recent study in which astronomers effectively peered back in time to discover what Jupiter was like in its early years. Jupiter is not only the largest in the ...

New orbital data reveals interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be on a guided path to Jupiter's Hill radius. Discover why this precise trajectory suggests the visitor could be releasing alien technology ...