As part of Juno’s extended mission, the spacecraft is making close encounters of Jupiter’s large Galilean moons after having ...

For generations, Jupiter has been shorthand for a straightforward idea: the biggest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

Unlike earlier studies, which often examined chemistry and atmospheric motion separately, the new simulations combined both.

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

The two largest planets in the Solar System – Jupiter and Saturn – have a lot in common. They're made of very similar stuff, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

An atmospheric study reveals unexpected findings about our largest neighboring planet and the structure of its deep atmosphere.