Could Jupiter Moon Harbor Fish-Size Life? ... For example, Pappalardo said, Europa is gravitationally locked with its neighboring moon Io, which has an eccentric orbit around Jupiter.

A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal discusses the discovery and ...

Based on our projections, I don’t think Jupiter will ever catch up.” That brings the total number of moons around Saturn to 274, nearly twice as many as all the other planets in the solar ...

Super-Jupiters in particular tend to have more eccentric orbits than smaller, more Jupiter-like gas giants do, which suggests they formed in more turbulent star systems, ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently described cold super-Jupiter has a much more leisurely orbit: ...

To start, it is far more massive, around 6.3 times the mass of Jupiter. And it orbits some 28 times the distance of Earth from the Sun, a threefold difference from the original “find.” ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...