Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; Image Processing by Judy Schmidt. Oh, Jupiter. If only the gas giant shifted its orbit slightly, becoming more eccentric (read: oval-shaped), it could ...

If Jupiter's orbit became more eccentric the team found that Earth's orbit would be pushed into becoming more eccentric too. This means at times Earth would be even closer to the sun than it ...

Jupiter is about 0.001 as massive than the sun, but it's sizeable enough that both the sun and Jupiter orbit that point in space. This not-to-scale GIF from NASA illustrates the effect: ...

While two Jupiter-like planets, PDS 70b and PDS 70c, are already known to orbit this star, the team detected a cloud of debris within PDS 70b’s orbital path following this planet’s orbit.

The orbit of the newfound exoplanet spotted with TESS may have been influenced by another planet. Astronomers have discovered a new "warm-Jupiter" planet with a strange, flattened and misaligned ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

After a 1.74 billion mile journey, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is due to arrive at Jupiter on the fourth of July. It will be the fastest spacecraft ever when it arrives, traveling at 165,000 miles an ...

This shift in Jupiter’s orbit would cause the Earth’s orbit to carry it closer to the Sun at specific points. During this time, those colder regions of our planet would heat up to livable ranges.

Jupiter does not orbit around the sun. It is so big, so massive, that it orbits a different center of gravity or barycenter, than all the other planets in our solar system.

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how hot Jupiter exoplanets are born, finding a gas giant with a weird orbit in the process of transforming into just such a world.

LONE WOLF Jupiter shares its orbit with more than 6,000 Trojan asteroids (white), which travel in the same direction as the planet. But one of the planet’s companions is an outlier, traveling in ...

Jupiter has a new moon! And its name is Juno: A spacecraft that traveled for five years and 1.7 billion km is now in orbit around Jupiter.