The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional ...

As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is not one to play with. That doesn’t stop wandering comets or asteroids from testing the gas giant, occasionally crashing into Jupiter due to its ...

Jupiter is a cosmic vacuum cleaner. Owing to its girth — the gas giant wields the mass of 318 Earths — Jupiter can pull many objects into its orbit (though it can fling some toward Earth's ...

The second character trailer for Sailor Moon Cosmos is now on YouTube and TikTok, and it focuses on Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter. As opposed to the analytical and intellectual way that Sailor ...

Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere on June 3 and Aug. 20. Professional astronomers at NASA and other ...

A rare collision between a celestial object and Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet, was recently captured by an amateur astronomer. The impact occurred on August 29, at 1:45 am Japan Standard ...

An asteroid or icy object collided with the gas giant Jupiter on Sept. 13, where it eventually blew up in the planet's thick clouds. A Brazilian space photographer, José Luis Pereira, captured the ...

In August 2019 amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel captured video of an asteroid crashing into Jupiter in a brief yet awe-inspiring clip. Now, in a similar yet far more vivid sighting another amateur ...

Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a ghoulish "face" on Jupiter during a recent flyby of the giant planet, giving us all a nice Halloween treat. Juno snapped the new image on Sept. 7, capturing a region ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) form—a longstanding mystery in astrophysics In a recent study, Dr. Richard ...