Hot Jupiters, the blisteringly close cousins of our own Jupiter, were once treated as cosmic misfits. Now their orbital patterns are turning into a kind of forensic record, revealing how these giants ...

An eye-catching pattern on the surface of Europa, an ice-covered moon, may have profound implications for our understanding ...

Hot Jupiters, giant planets that circle their stars in just a few days, have long defied simple explanations of how planetary ...

The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter," a planet as massive as Jupiter with an orbital period of just a few days. Today, hot Jupiters are thought to have ...

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Since entering ...

It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have ...

A trip of 1.8 billion miles. That’s the journey NASA’s newest astrobiology mission, the Europa Clipper, must undertake to reach Jupiter and its enchanting, ice-coated moon, Europa. Scientists are ...

NASA's long-awaited mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of extraterrestrial life appears to be back on track after Hurricane Milton forced a delay. Before the deadly ...

The first planet ever found orbiting another star was detected in 1995, and it belonged to a class now known as a “hot Jupiter.” These exoplanets are comparable in mass to Jupiter but circle their ...