Eventually, the gas turns into a form of liquid hydrogen ... Jupiter has altered the orbit of asteroids and comets for billions of years. Without Jupiter’s intervention, some of that space ...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27, all we got was a fuzzy image of the gas giant from a glancing angle. But now scientists behind the mission are starting to trickle ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

Core accretion is one theory put forward to explain the development of Jupiter and Saturn. Another theorized process of gas giant formation posits they form out of condensing gasses left over from ...

Though seemingly serene when viewed from the relative safety of our home world, Jupiter is a chaotic and stormy place. The gas giant planet's spots and swirls come from massive storms that whip up ...

Until now, researchers have been able to determine the atmospheric chemical composition for some planets outside our solar system - called exoplanets - but without ... Jupiter," a class of large ...

The fifth rock from the sun and the biggest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is what’s known as a gas giant – a ball of hydrogen and helium – unlike rocky Earth and Mars. Jupiter is an ...

Core accretion is one theory put forward to explain the development of Jupiter and Saturn. Another theorized process of gas giant formation posits they form out of condensing gasses left over from ...