Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, will outshine everything in the midnight sky as it makes its annual closest approach to Earth. Known as opposition, the event is when Jupiter will ...

What's more, scientists believe the migrating planets — primarily Jupiter — could have led to the formation of Earth's moon by destabilizing the orbit of a Mars-size protoplanet called Theia.

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth. Although discovered in 2006, the “free ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

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The brief window will enable skywatchers to see all seven other planets in the Earth’s solar system simultaneously ... Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be the easiest planets for skygazers to ...

If a person with a mass of 55kg was to travel to Jupiter or Pluto, the effects of gravity would be very different from those on Earth. Gravity is the pull that a planet exerts towards its centre.