New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

Space. It's really, really big. How big is it? Well, according to astronomers, the observable universe is around 92 billion light-years in diameter, but that's all we can see (hence the word ...

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional ...

The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of Jupiter in September 2021. It depicts the planet's colorful, turbulent atmosphere organized by high-speed jet streams into dark belts and light-colored ...