Of course, Barker and colleagues were indeed able to use their findings to estimate how quickly the orbits of hot-Jupiter planets around sun-like stars will decay. They then compared these results ...

For decades, the simple assumption of a well-mixed atmosphere guided inferences about the interior makeup of gas giant planets like Jupiter. Observations by radio telescopes, much of it conducted ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else. It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can ...

Some of the planets — like Venus, Jupiter and Mars — were relatively easy to spot because of their great brilliance. Others, like Mercury and Saturn, were a bit more difficult to see because ...

Jupiter is one of the more cheerful planets in the astrological realm. Responsible for abundance, fortune, expansion and growth the planet moves into retrograde annually for around four months at a ...

Thomas says this goes for all outer planets: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. “Jupiter and Saturn are the only outer planets that the ancients were aware of in previous times,” explains Thomas.

with the observations providing strong evidence that these four giant planets formed in much the same way as Jupiter and Saturn, through the slow formation of solid cores. The findings were ...

Much larger than the rocky planets, these cosmic giants are accompanied by numerous moons. Jupiter, famous for its red spot, is the largest, followed by Saturn with its rings made of ice ...