ONE of our biggest understandings of the Solar System could turn out to be a myth after it was revealed that Jupiter, the largest planet in our galactic neighbourhood, does not in fact orbit the Sun.

The GIF was made from a YouTube video (which you can see below) about Jupiter's moon Europa. The moon holds a large ocean, which is thought to have more liquid water than Earth. It may harbor life, ...

This collection of images of Jupiter was captured by Mike Salway Photography. Pictured here are four frames of a 21-frame sequence captured in 2007 (the full animation can be seen below). You can see ...

“It looks awfully like an impact flash to my eyes,” wrote Ethan Chappel, an amateur astronomer in Cibolo, Tex., in a recent post sharing a night’s observations of Jupiter at the image-hosting Web site ...

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