Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school that’s changed in recent years. Everything from the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

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Without Jupiter’s intervention, some of that space debris could have crashed into Earth; if one had been a cataclysmic collision, it could have caused an extinction-level event.

The announcement has created divisions within the White House, and more generally among people who are thinking about the intersection of artificial intelligence and geopolitics.

Jupiter, Florida, known for shopping, restaurants, and well-known golf courses, is increasingly popular among wealthy homebuyers, say real estate experts.

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, hides a past very different from its current appearance. A recent study reveals surprising characteristics of the planet in its youth. Researchers ...

A new study sheds light on what Jupiter, often called the "architect" of the solar system, was like in the beginning. The giant planet has dramatically changed.

"This brings us closer to understanding how not only Jupiter but the entire solar system took shape," said Konstantin Batygin, planetary science professor at Caltech and lead author of the study ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

The planet Jupiter has played a vital role in the evolution of the Solar System, according to our current models. On the one hand, its formation (ca. 4.6 billion years ago) and powerful gravity are ...