The image is a mosaic of a star field ... tasked with a vital mission to find out if the distant moon in Jupiter's orbit could possibly support life. To this end, the spacecraft's three main ...

"We are in an orbit nobody has ever been in before ... Here's one of the most impressive Cassini images of Jupiter that we've seen, taken in 2001: Sometime before the end of 2016, NASA will ...

A team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists have discovered a planet that has the most oblong orbit ever found among ... known as hot Jupiters, form, stabilize and evolve over time.

It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...

The moon, discovered by Barnard, orbits Jupiter within the orbit of Io and was named Amalthea after the nymph who, according to Greek mythology, fed Zeus with goat's milk in his childhood. Images ...

Hot Jupiters are massive, gaseous worlds like Jupiter, that orbit closer to their parent stars than Mercury is to the Sun. In a recent paper, a McGill-led research team, provides new insight into ...

Astronomers at California Planet Search have found a new planet that's three times the size of Jupiter in the outer ... the planet's 'highly eccentric' orbit which sling-shots itself around ...