Based on the data obtained, the planet is very close to the white dwarf, completing an orbit every 1.4 days (34 hours), but being quite large: approximately the size of Jupiter, taking 6-to-8 ...

Planet hunter: artist’s concept of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. (Courtesy: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Meaney) A huge planet about the size of Jupiter has been spotted orbiting a ...

Artist’s depiction of a Jupiter-sized planet in orbit around a white dwarf. Incredibly, the two objects in the image are actually close to scale, as white dwarfs are roughly the size of Earth ...

67 moons orbit the great gas giant Jupiter; of these, the four largest are known as the Galilean moons, having been discovered by Galileo Galilei using his telescope in 1610. The four moons are Io ...

SAN FRANCISCO – EchoStar’s Jupiter-3, the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite, is performing as expected after deploying solar arrays and antennas in geostationary orbit ...

New Discovery At Jupiter Could Help Protect Earth-orbit Satellites. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 03 / 080309151238.htm ...

The Jupiter 3, a bus-size spacecraft designed to quadruple Hughes' satellite broadband speeds, is in orbit after two launch delays. SpaceX Launches Enormous Satellite for Faster Rural Broadband - CNET ...

"If Jupiter's position remained the same, but the shape of its orbit changed, it could actually increase this planet's habitability," study leader and UCR Earth and planetary scientist, Pam ...

Venus and Jupiter are the brightest objects in the night sky right now - aside from the moon. Conjunctions happen frequently because planets orbit the sun in similar paths. Article Topic Follows ...

The US space agency has successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter. The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had to fire a rocket engine to slow its approach to the planet ...

Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter’s magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter’s magnetic field in the same way as … ...