Jupiter was shaping the fate of our solar system long before Earth came into existence. A new study conducted by scientists at Houston-based Rice University has revealed that this giant planet created ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

Jupiter acts like a cosmic shield for Earth because of its enormous size and strong gravity. Its powerful gravitational pull ...

Research shows Jupiter’s strong gravitational pull may have protected Earth by keeping its orbit steady and preventing it from drifting toward the Sun.

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

Southwest Research Institute could lose more than $265 million if the cuts go through, including defunding missions already ...

NASA has activated a global planetary defense group to study a massive interstellar object exhibiting strange, possibly artificial characteristics ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb warns that 3I/ATLAS could be an extraterrestrial “Trojan horse” whose presence has major ...

BEIJING -- China is transitioning from being a user of space technology to a major contributor to humanity's cosmic understanding, said Wang Chi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...