The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

A new study explores how eccentric warm Jupiters - giant exoplanets with unusual oval orbits - form, offering clues about the ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

Rogue planets, also called free-floating planetary-mass objects, typically have a mass a few times greater than Jupiter, ...

After nearly 10 years, NASA’s Jupiter explorer Juno is likely no longer operating with its latest mission extension ending ...

A Harvard physicist who sounded the alarm earlier this month about a rare interstellar object passing through our solar system — suggesting it might be more than a comet — now says it could even be a ...

I write for some info about the ephemeris used by Stellarium. I'm writing a scientific paper on the Roemer method to calculate the speed of light. I used Stellarium for windows 0.19.1 I'd like to know ...

NASA successfully completed a rescue mission in Jupiter orbit in December 2023, using a novel technique to save the JunoCam camera aboard the Juno spacecraft—a mission only recently revealed on July ...

What is the distance from Earth to Jupiter? If you don't know, this article will tell you how far Jupiter is from Earth. Jupiter, one of the three gas giant planets in our solar system. This star is ...