Study examines 3I/ATLAS’s closest approach to Jupiter on March 16, 2026, showing its distance aligns with Jupiter’s Hill ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

Avi Loeb notes that presumed comet 3I/ATLAS will be near Jupiter in March — near enough to "release some probes." ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

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New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

Gas giant Jupiter is so large it could swallow up over 1,300 Earths and still have some room to spare. If you want that in even more numbers, that would be a diameter at the equator of close to 90,000 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers discovered a free-floating rogue planet with a mass 10 times heavier than Jupiter, and it's growing at an unprecedented rate. The rogue planet, named as such because it ...

NASA’s Juno mission launched Aug. 5, 2011, and traveled 1.7 billion miles on a five-year journey to the king of the planets, Jupiter. Juno arrived in July 2016 with mission objective of solving ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

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Planetary size was determined pre-spacecraft by measuring the planet's angular diameter and its distance from Earth (in AU, later converted to terrestrial units after the AU was accurately measured ...