Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

At the end of this month there will six planets visible at the same time and stargazers will be hoping for clear conditions. You'll be able to spot Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Uranus and Neptune.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time identified hydrogen sulfide gas in the atmospheres of three gas-giant exoplanets orbiting HR 8799, a ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA describes deep hydrogen compression that eventually forms conductive metallic liquid, making Jupiter feel less like Earth and more like a continuous gradient of states. That alone breaks the old ...

A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast.

INSIDE THIS REPORT The discovery did not arrive with spectacle. It arrived in spectral lines—quiet, technical, and unmistakable. NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has now detected organic molecules streaming ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just gotten a bit smaller, at least according to the latest data. New ...

New measurements show Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter, improving models of its interior and atmosphere.

February may be the shortest month of the year, but it is packed with celestial events, according to a new skywatching update from NASA.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the first-ever spectral signature of hydrogen sulfide around a massive gas giant planet.

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...