The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.
The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...
Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...
Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...
The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about ...
Uranus and Neptune will also be on the scene, too dim to see with the naked eye.
The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.
New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous.