NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Hot Jupiters are believed to orbit alone close to their star, accreting any other planets. This observation was more convincing because there was a theory supporting it. The theory states that when ...

However, since Amalthea takes less than half a day to orbit Jupiter, its temperature could be due to tidal stresses caused by Jupiter’s gravity, which creates a lot of friction and heat within it.

which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, in 2025. One key event for Lucy is its flyby of the inner main-belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, scheduled for April 20, 2025. This flyby will ...

Recent studies have revealed that, until now, Hot Jupiters seem to be the only planet in orbit around their host star. This ...

The class of planets known as “hot Jupiters” puzzled astronomers on first discovery, but rapidly led to an explanation that ...

New research has revealed that Hot Jupiters do not always push away or destroy nearby planets during their migration. This ...

Research indicates an interstellar object might have altered the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune billions of years ago ...

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