The Great Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn – an event that happens once in centuries! But what actually occurs when these two ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting the gas giant Jupiter since 2016, and it’s ...

Let’s get lucky — and let’s get to listening. At long last, Jupiter — our gas-giant planet of good fortune, abundance, games of chance and inclinations of excess — is going direct in Gemini. After a ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Jupiter’s famous clouds aren’t ammonia ice but a murky mix of chemicals, sitting lower in the atmosphere than expected. For years, astronomers believed that Jupiter’s upper clouds — responsible for it ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

For nine years, a spacecraft known as the Juno orbiter has divided its time between observing the gas giant of Jupiter and ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

The Moon and Jupiter will meet in the southwest sky at around 9.00pm GMT, where Jupiter will be shining bright to the left of the Moon. At the same time tomorrow evening (February 6), the pair will ...