Jupiter has 12 new moons, 79 total in orbit: Scientists. There are 11 retrograde moons and an “oddball," scientists say. ... or opposite direction of Jupiter’s spin rotation," the statement said.

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.

Its orbit is about 483 million miles (777 million km) away from our star. Skip to content. ... Rotation: Although Jupiter takes a long time to go around the Sun, ...

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.” ...

NASA plans for Juno to orbit Jupiter 37 times over the next 20 months as it provides new information about the gas giant's core and composition. NASA has been following the spacecraft's progress here.

Jupiter got a little less lonely today as NASA's Juno deep-space probe arrived after a five-year journey capped by a dramatic engine maneuver that placed it in orbit around the Solar System's ...

At that point, Juno will turn its engines on for 35 minutes to slow down and ultimately insert itself into orbit around Jupiter on July 4th. When that happens, it’ll mark the ninth time a ...

It takes Jupiter just under 12 years to complete one orbit around the Sun and travels at an average speed of 13 kilometres per second along its orbit. The planet has 318 times the mass of Earth. This ...

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 ...

A dozen new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, including 11 normal moons and one “oddball” moon, according to Carnegie Institution for Science.

However, hot Jupiters are exoplanets that orbit their planets at distances that see them complete a year in just 10 Earth days or less. That means that TIC 241249530 b isn't a hot Jupiter — at ...

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.