If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. New research claims that a long-wished for planet between Mars and Jupiter could ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

One of them is Jupiter. Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall ...

This phenomenon, reported for the first time, resulted in temperatures exceeding 500°C, significantly higher than the typical ...

In 2014, images from the Hubble Space Telescope showed the spot to be orange, and roughly the size of Earth. What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has ...

When Jupiter was young, about 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet with 10 times the mass of Earth crashed head-on into its surface. The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the ...