Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

After originally believing the "continuously active" object in Jupiter's orbit was the first-known "Trojan asteroid" like it, scientists have issued a correction and it's just a regular comet.

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 ...

On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a moon of Jupiter, in one of the photos from Voyager 1. She wrote, “I could feel tears begin to roll down my face at the sight ...

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.

Learn about Jupiter’s weird inner moon Amalthea. It was not only the fifth Jovian satellite to be discovered, but it’s also the fifth-largest.

However, Jupiter does not technically orbit the sun — because it's so dauntingly massive. When a small object orbits a big object in space, the less massive one doesn't travel in a perfect ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft may be in orbit around Jupiter, but it’s going to be a while before the vehicle photographs its first up-close images of the gas giant.The probe’s instruments were all ...

The spacecraft, which launched from Florida in August 2011, will stay in Jupiter’s orbit and collect data through February 2018. 'Nail biting': Jitters as $1B Juno probe nears 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 ...

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: ...