The planet parade is back once again, and this time six planets will align in the sky. Here's when and what planets will be a ...

The curious minds at What If explore a scenario where Jupiter grows massive enough to swallow every planet, revealing the cosmic domino effect such a gargantuan transformation would have on our solar ...

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants. Reading time 3 minutes Jupiter’s moon Io is covered in hundreds of ...

(Nanowerk News) Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don’t have hard surfaces. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants in ...

One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by pulling in rocky and icy pebbles until they become massive enough to attract the gas that surrounds ...

The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You can use this sparkling star to point your way to the open cluster M47 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A VIEW of Jupiter “This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we ...

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An enhanced-color image, using raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, shows the planet Jupiter, with ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is slightly smaller and flatter than scientists had believed for the past 50 years, according to a breakthrough discovery by Israeli researchers.