Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

It is the largest object in the Solar System, but recent studies suggest it was once twice as large as it is today.

A camera built at Arizona State University is on its way to check for signs of life above Jupiter, but it detoured to Mars ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets look slow by comparison.

(Credit: Batygin and Laughlin, ) Jupiter may have swept through the early solar system like a wrecking ball, destroying a first generation of inner planets before retreating into its current orbit, ...

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet ... discovered many new planets beyond the bounds of our solar system, most of which appear to be gas planets where ...

Chris Moeckel of UC Berkeley suspects that these hailstones, known as mushballs, play an outsized role in Jupiter’s weather and chemistry. He believes this phenomenon might also extend to other large ...

now say that hailstorms of mushballs accompanied by fierce lightning actually exist on Jupiter. In fact, mushball hailstorms may occur on all gaseous planets in the galaxy, including our solar ...

it seems like mushball hailstorms may be a common feature of gaseous planets—including our solar system's Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. An artist's impression of high-altitude storms on Jupiter.

“The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half the planet. Jupiter’s diameter is 11 times larger than Earth ...