In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

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Two icy moons of Jupiter, though neighboring and of similar size, exhibit radically different internal structures. A new study suggests this dichotomy stems from their very formation, ...

It's popularly understood that no one can hear you scream in space, and yet, scientists have captured some pretty strange ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Adams and Batygin discovered that, approximately 3.8 million years after the solar system's first solids appeared, Jupiter’s radius was nearly twice its current size.

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe.

Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...

At their closest, Jupiter and its moons are roughly 365 million miles (588 million kilometers) from Earth, so getting there can take as long as five to six years with current technology.