The Latest Breaking News from Jupiter

How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own Solar System.

Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation - describing it as still in the womb - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of planetary formation.

The giant planet confirms a "heretical" model of planetary formation.

Jupiter and Venus will be so close in the sky that you can see them in the same telescopic field of view.

Io and Europa creep into a shot from the Juno probe.

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In this edition of Inverse Daily, decide if you would like to live on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, learn about magnetic nanobots that eat pollution, and more.

A mere fifty years ago, Pioneer 10 launched and became the first unmanned mission to Jupiter. The mission revealed new details about the Solar System — and sent a message to aliens.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will offer a new window on exoplanets — in visible light.

Since astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, we have found many worlds that are very unlike the ones in our own Solar System. A large number of these “exoplanets” are large, gaseous planets roughly the size of Jupiter, orbiting close to their parent stars…

The giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are some of the most awe-inspiring in our Solar System, and have great importance for space research and our comprehension of the greater universe.