New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.
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Why some planets rain diamonds

It sounds like something straight out of a big-budget sci-fi film, but the idea of diamonds falling from the sky […] ...
The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of Jupiter in September 2021. It depicts the planet's colorful, turbulent atmosphere organized by high-speed jet streams into dark belts and light-colored ...
Jupiter reaches opposition on Jan. 10, when it will shine all night at its brightest as Earth moves between the giant planet and the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
On Jan. 10, Jupiter will shine at its brightest and largest in 2026, rising at sunset and glowing in the sky until sunrise The gas giant will reach a magnitude of -2.7, making it the fourth brightest ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky as dusk slowly fades. It forms an eye-catching ...
Jupiter, the bright dot at left, gleams below the stars Pollux (bottom) and Castor in Gemini. At right is Orion and his famous three-starred Belt. Jupiter, the king of the planets, will be closest to ...
SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...
Fortunately for the astronomers studying this strange Jupiter-mass planet, its cosmic environment provides optimal conditions for observation, as its host object is a rapidly rotating pulsar. Such ...
Every time a new planet is discovered, there is reason to celebrate. That's understandable, seeing how from the potential billions of them, we only know for sure some 6,000 exist. That being said, we ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have captured images of extreme weather patterns on a rogue planet, exhibiting atmospheric chaos that surpasses even the turbulent storms of Jupiter. This ...