The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt ...

Oh, Jupiter. If only the gas giant shifted its orbit slightly, becoming more eccentric (read: oval-shaped), it could transform the shape of Earth’s orbit, too, causing parts of the blue planet ...

"If Jupiter's position remained the same, but the shape of its orbit changed, it could actually increase this planet's habitability," study leader and UCR Earth and planetary scientist, Pam ...

While Jupiter takes 4,000 Earth days to complete one orbit around the sun, hot Jupiters complete one orbit every few days. Scientists believe the large planets begin by orbiting their stars from a ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft may be in orbit around Jupiter, but it’s going to be a while before the vehicle photographs its first up-close images of the gas giant.The probe’s instruments were all ...

After originally believing the "continuously active" object in Jupiter's orbit was the first-known active "Trojan asteroid," scientists have issued a correction and it's just a regular comet. The ...

The spacecraft, which launched from Florida in August 2011, will stay in Jupiter’s orbit and collect data through February 2018. 'Nail biting': Jitters as $1B Juno probe nears Jupiter.

While two Jupiter-like planets, PDS 70b and PDS 70c, are already known to orbit this star, the team detected a cloud of debris within PDS 70b’s orbital path following this planet’s orbit.

Juno won't orbit Jupiter indefinitely. Mission managers expect they'll get about 30 orbits before the planet's radiation starts to take its toll on the spacecraft.

Jupiter does not orbit around the sun. It is so big, so massive, that it orbits a different center of gravity or barycenter, than all the other planets in our solar system.

An artist's rendition of Juno in orbit around Jupiter. The craft is powered entirely by the sun's rays. NASA. For scientists and Jupiter groupies (like myself), the real Fourth of July finale took ...