For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

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The planet was detected and characterized using ... More information: Arbel Schorr et al, GJ 2126 b: A highly eccentric Jovian exoplanet, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.11139 ...

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

NASA is shutting down instruments on the Voyager spacecraft, humanity's farthest explorers, allowing them to continue sending invaluable data from interstellar space, despite dwindling power.

Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and astronomy advanced, more and more, smaller and smaller bodies, until Big J ...

Juice is on his way to the icy moons of Jupiter. However, it has to pass by the Moon and then Venus, to take a shortcut to the system of the solar system's largest planet. Successful catapulting.

With a rotational velocity of 28,185 mph (12.6 km/s), the planet only takes just under 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis (a Jovian day). That is incredibly fast from our perspective ...