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 ...

After a five-year journey, NASA's solar-powered space probe Juno has arrived in orbit around Jupiter. NASA scientists say it's the hardest thing they've ever done. NBC’s Jo Ling Kent reports for ...

At “opposition” this week as Earth swings between it and the Sun, so bright and brilliant, Jupiter’s incredible journey from icy asteroid to a dominant gas giant planet is being revealed by ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe's most dazzling phenomena—the double hot ...

This concept drawing shows Juno in orbit around the solar system's largest planet. NASA/JPL It’s already broken records—the vessel is the farthest solar-powered craft that's ventured from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The companion, TOI-1408, c is just 3.3 million miles from its star, meaning it completes an orbit in 2.2 Earth days. Yet this newly found planet isn't a hot Jupiter.

Temperature: The average temperature at the top of clouds on Jupiter is –244° F (–153° C). Escape velocity: To escape Jupiter’s gravity, you have to travel 133,100 miles (214,200 km) per ...