Its enormous gravity can suck in and absorb smaller objects — as with the spectacular 1994 collision of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 — or propel them out of the solar system entirely.

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling Jupiter toward the Sun. If it sounds like science fiction, that’s because ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct structure. Jupiter's gravity, often called the "architect" of our solar ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...

As Io migrates away from Jupiter, its gravity causes a kickback — sort of like how a gun recoils when it's fired — that has contributed to the tilts of the smaller moons.

Above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, ... Gravity waves move through an atmosphere and are even seen on Earth occasionally. But the ones on Earth are much less powerful than on Jupiter.

In the new work [link to paper], they used a simulator that reproduces the effects of gravity on an orbiting particle or particles.They included not just the gravity of Jupiter but, critically ...

Sometimes, as with the Sun and Jupiter, their mutual center of gravity or barycenter lies slightly outside one of the bodies; Jupiter is large enough that it drags the Sun in a little circle, ...

To get to Jupiter, the Clipper will first fly past Mars on March 1, using the red planet's gravity to boost its speed and bend the trajectory to send the probe back toward Earth for another ...