According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope.

Astronomers have detected a massive, Ultra-Hot Jupiter that’s getting dangerously close to its star. It’s more massive than Jupiter and orbits its star more quickly than Mercury orbits the Sun. There ...

Illustration of a 'hot Jupiter' orbiting a sun-like star. A hot Jupiter is a Jupiter-sized gas giant planet orbiting extremely close to its star, with a period of a few days compared to a year on ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – ...

An illustration of Jupiter-sized planet (IMAGE) Michigan State University. Caption. An artist’s conception of the exoplanet K2-33b, a 10 Myr Jupiter-sized planet, transiting ...

This illustration of Jupiter and its moons depicts how the planet and satellites will appear at 7:15 p.m. EST/4:15 p.m. PST from North America. Notice that the Great Red Spot will just be ending ...

An illustration of the Trojan asteroids as they lead and follow Jupiter. Illustration: NASA Astronomer Marc Buie has been tracing the shadows of a swarm of rocky bodies as they pass in front of ...

In a curveball of cosmic proportions, astronomers went looking for a hypothetical planet on the far fringes of our solar system, and instead found 12 new moons dancing around Jupiter. To be clear ...

Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...