Jupiter has 80 known moons, with more still being discovered by astronomers and amateur sky-watchers alike. That’s second only to Saturn’s 83 moons in our Solar System. The below video does a cool ...

An animation posted to Twitter has shocked social media users by showing the impressive size of Jupiter and just how rapidly the solar system's largest planet rotates. The animation posted by ...

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened at the poles than scientists had believed for decades. As reported by New ...

Jupiter has a frankly ridiculous number of moons. So many, in fact, that we haven't even bothered officially naming the last 23. Of the moons, you are probably most familiar with Europa, Io, and ...

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According to New Scientist, these findings are based on recent data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, representing the most accurate assessment of this gas giant's size in over 40 years. Unlike Earth, ...

A newly discovered star system is breaking records — and helping scientists unravel the mysteries of an extreme type of planet known as hot Jupiters. In a paper published Aug. 14 in the journal Nature ...

Berkeley — Something slammed into Jupiter in the last few days, creating a dark bruise about the size of the Pacific Ocean. The bruise was noticed by an amateur astronomer on Sunday, July 19. UC ...

After discovering scores of oddball planets around distant stars in recent years, astronomers have finally detected something that looks familiar: a family of planets that includes one roughly ...

Planetary scientists have issued a tornado warning for Jupiter, with the discovery that magnetic vortices twisting down from the planet's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere are resulting in giant, ...