Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

The planet Jupiter is smaller and flatter than astrophysicists have believed for over 50 years, the Weizmann Institute of Science and NASA discovered. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal ...

New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...

Planetary parades, or alignments, take place when major planets in the solar system appear aligned from our viewpoint on ...

There’s a celestial connection on the horizon. Six planets—Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus—are set to appear in the sky in what’s known as a planet parade on Feb. 28. And since ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the night sky shortly after sunset, with some visible to the naked eye.

According to these calculations, Earth's total lifespan will be about 9.5 billion years.

The simplest way to differentiate between planets and stars is by observing their light - if it twinkles, it's likely a star ...

"It really shows how much we still have to learn about planets, even in our own solar system." The post There’s Something ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...