The planet Jupiter is not what you think. Almost everything you were taught in school about this planet is wrong. This is not ...

When it comes to planets, bigger is not always easier to understand. The largest planets in the universe are gas giants—massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium, with no solid surface. In our ...

Adventure’s on the menu, but even explorers need a roadmap.Your ruling planet, Jupiter, is stirring up big ideas and bold plans today. You’re itching to break free from the norm and chase that next ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

BAY CITY Head to the Delta College Planetarium for a special night all about our solar system’s largest planet – Jupiter!

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an ...

If a gas giant planet is big enough to ignite deuterium fusion, it becomes a brown dwarf instead of a planet. But this definition is incomplete and does not tell us how gas giants form or what ...

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

Thanks to new data from the Juno mission to Jupiter, we have discovered that the planet is slightly smaller than previously thought, and more oblate.

Stargazers, get ready for a celestial show! A planetary alignment featuring six planets will be visible in late February and ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don’t ...