NASA's Juno probe has flown closer to Jupiter and its largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades — and the images it beamed back of the gas giant and its icy orb are ...

A composite of two observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show Jupiter's aurora.NASA/ESA/J. Nichols (University of Leicester) An astronomer's map of a heat wave on Jupiter helped solve the ...

Jupiter, the colossal planet at the heart of our solar system, has long been a subject of intrigue. Recent research from Rice University has revealed a surprising twist in its formation story, ...

Jupiter is the largest known planet in the entire solar system, and planetary scientists have been debating about how it formed for as long as we can remember. But new research published this week in ...

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international pair of scientists investigated the physical, ...

A new theory, informed by exoplanet research, proposes a sequential formation mechanism for Jupiter's Galilean moons, starting with Io and progressing outward to Callisto. The model posits that these ...

Just a bit over a month ago, NASA’s Juno spacecraft succeeded in flying closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede than any other spacecraft in more than 20 years. Now NASA shares an animation that lets us see ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...

A peculiar class of meteorites has offered scientists new clues about when the planet Jupiter took shape and wandered through the solar system. Scientists have theorized for years now that Jupiter ...