Jupiter's moon count reaches 95+ official satellites. Explore the history of the Jovian system, from Galileo to the latest NASA discoveries.

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers reveal some hot Jupiters formed via smooth disk migration. (Image: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/College of Arts and Sciences/The University of Tokyo) Astronomers have uncovered new ...

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 ...

Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far greater density.

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

On a clear night, if you point a telescope at the sky, you might spot a line of bright, star-like lights. What you’re actually seeing is Jupiter and its four Galilean moons – Ganymede, Callisto, Io ...