There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show the gas giant is slightly ...

Jupiter shrunk not; the yardstick improved. The largest planet of the solar system has been used decades as a sort of calibration beacon: a “known” giant, whose existence largely goes unnoticed, whose ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

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 12 km smaller along the poles, and about 4 km smaller at the equator, than ...

The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.

Elon Musk pulled off one of the most audacious deals of his career this week – merging his rocket company SpaceX, with his ...

Four zodiac signs are attracting abundance and luck on February 7, 2026. They are: Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio, and Leo.

But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...

An international team of researchers has finally identified the "invisible power source" behind the light show: Alfvén waves.

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...