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.

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. News.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.” ...

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.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun. Its orbit is about 483 million miles (777 million km) away from our star. Skip to content. Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

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.” ...