Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Illustrations by the 17th-century astronomer Cassini (a-c), compared with Jupiter's current Great Red Spot as captured by Eric Sussenbach in 2023. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade". Throughout much of January and February, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, ...

Illustration of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The ... [+] latter is a vast, cyclonic storm - wider than the entire Earth - that has raged for centuries.

Have you noticed lately the dazzling pair of “stars” above the western horizon an hour or so after sunset? You probably decided that both are planets – and you are correct. The lower and ...

Get ready, Jupiter is about to put on an awesome sky show. On Sept. 26, the giant planet will be closer and brighter than it has been for the last 59 years. This fact has not escaped the attention ...