In the solar system, Jovian planets are located farther from the sun than terrestrial planets, and are therefore cooler. Scientists have found more than 100 Jovian planets around other stars.

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

French experts have made an unprecedented discovery with NASA's James Webb Telescope after stumbling across an exoplanet which is now known as TWA 7b.

A never-before-seen planet! 🪐 This is Webb’s first discovery of a planet using direct imaging. With a mass similar to Saturn ...

On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter's moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted ...

HD 28185 is a sun-like star at a distance of about 127.8 light years, estimated to be 8.3 billion years old. In 2001, a temperate giant planet was detected, which received the designation HD 28185 b.

The findings could explain the existence of huge gas giant exoplanets — or "super-Jovian planets" — around massive, hot, young stars, which has been a mystery until now. The two recently ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

A file image of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Scientists have recently analyzed lightening on the gas planet. martin_adams2000/Getty ...

The planet is likely about the same size as Earth, and a little more massive. That’s encouraging. Even better, it orbits the star at a distance of about 10 million kilometers.