The two-hour documentary is a fascinating look into the science, the engineering, and the challenges of constructing Europe’s biggest mission yet: The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. When you purchase ...

The impacts that started on July 16, 1994 ended on July 22, 1994, were captured by NASA’s Galileo orbiter that was enroute to ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new cold "super Jupiter" exoplanet, marking the closest of its kind ever found to us. The new planet, named Eps Ind Ab, orbits a star called Epsilon Indi A, only ...

Star Gazers is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

A newly discovered star system is breaking records — and helping scientists unravel the mysteries of an extreme type of planet known as hot Jupiters. In a paper published Aug. 14 in the journal Nature ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the curious origins of the universe's most curious planets, so-called "double hot Jupiters." The team behind the research hopes their discovery will help find more of ...

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputation as a rather extreme place, a scorching hot gas giant a bit larger than Jupiter that is a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mars and Jupiter will give sky watchers an optical illusion this week as they reach the minimum amount of separation in their orbits. On Wednesday, the two planets, the fourth ...