Jupiter has fascinated scientists for centuries, but every new mission reveals a world far stranger than anyone imagined.

NASA’s TESS discovered two Jupiter-sized “super-puff” planets lighter than cotton candy, 1,100 light-years away.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An image of Jupiter and Io as seen by NASA's Juno on August ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided new insight into Jupiter and its volcanic moon, Io. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Alain Mirón Velázquez At Jupiter's north pole, powerful storms the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to explore Jupiter's moon Europa, one of the prime candidates for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will assess whether Europa's conditions, such as its ...

Astronomers have discovered a curious new exoplanet that challenges assumptions about hot Jupiters, some of the most extreme ...

NASA on Monday approved next month's launch to Jupiter's moon Europa after reviewing the spacecraft's ability to withstand the intense radiation there. Questions about the reliability of the ...

The Webb Space Telescope spotted a gas giant roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with six times the mass, orbiting a neighboring star, Epsilon Indi A. It might take this planet as long as 250 ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is now soaring towards Jupiter to look for an environment that could support extraterrestrial life. The spacecraft is the largest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is due to lift off on Monday on a five-and-a-half-year journey to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to ...