And it's little surprise sizable objects continually smack into massive Jupiter. It attracts objects ... hours to looking into the deep, deep cosmos) don't fixate on the giant world so close ...

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars ... Their mass can be as low as two to three times the mass of Jupiter, a gas giant over 300 times more massive than Earth.

Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when ... are bodies with around 13 times the mass of Jupiter that are often found drifting through young star ...

If an atmosphere is gaseous, it doesn't mean it's featureless and well mixed. In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has structures scientists are still learning about.

Yet the cosmos continues to surprise us ... The scientists who discovered them have called them Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs, and the reason for their appearance is a complete mystery.

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which would explain the peculiarities of these four planets' paths. Prevailing solar ...

JuMBOs, however, are planetary-mass objects orbiting each ... their place in the cosmos. More information: Jessica L. Diamond et al, Formation of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects through photoerosion ...

Volcanic eruptions on Jupiter moon of Io Jupiter's third-largest ... What's represented in the artistic impression is an object 500 trillion times brighter and 17 billion times bigger than our ...