Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that one of the closest "hot Jupiter" planets to ...

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

HD 189733b is a 'hot Jupiter' planet. The planet is categorized as a "hot Jupiter," meaning it is a gas giant similar to Jupiter but much hotter due to it being close to a star, NASA said.

HD 189733 b is what is known as a hot Jupiter planet, which are gas giants with extremely high temperatures. They closely orbit their stars, which make them "infernally hot," according to NASA.

The newest release from the James Webb Space Telescope team is a pair of highly detailed images of Jupiter that show its auroras around the poles. Both images are composites, meaning they combine ...

Jupiter is currently shrinking by about 2 centimeters per year, according to Caltech. This is due to the Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism — a process by which planets grow smaller as they cool.

Scientists have discovered that a planet the size of Jupiter found in 2005 smells of rotten eggs. 'HD 189733 b' is around 64 light years away from the Earth and is known an an exoplanet, meaning ...

Scientists discover Jupiter-like exoplanet that smells of rotten eggs . Exoplanet HD 189733 b contains hydrogen sulfide, according to new research.

It's called HD 189733 b, and is around 11% bigger than Jupiter. From the outside, it looks like a bright blue planet – almost Earth-like – but that conceals the deadly conditions within.