A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

It is likely that the four large moons were formed at the same time as Jupiter and in its immediate vicinity. For the small moons, it is assumed that they are more likely to be asteroids captured by ...

As Juno approached the planet, it fired a rocket engine to slow itself down, and gently slipped into orbit. Because of the communication time lag between Jupiter and Earth, Juno was on autopilot ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine.

Jupiter’s skies can glow with lights more ... But other models showed strong winds caused by the planet’s fast rotation would trap the heat near the poles, making wide-scale movement unlikely.