Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, will outshine everything in the midnight sky as it makes its annual closest ...

Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

Jupiter’s striking size, swirling gases, and dramatic bands in its atmosphere set it apart from every other planet. One of ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations.

Scientists want Juno in close so it can make precise measurements ... (The amount of annual exposure to background radiation on Earth is less than one rad.) Jupiter’s powerful radiation is ...

For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode relatively recently as scientists worked on remedying some ...

Jupiter’s magnetosphere is enormous, the largest continuous structure in the Solar System apart from the heliosphere itself.

Conversely, when Venus is near its closest point to the Earth, its disk appears six times ... for this current morning apparition, outshining Jupiter twelve-fold and appearing nearly 20 times ...

May 6, 2024 — New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest ...

Diminutive Barnard's Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the sun ... that generate a magnetic field (just as the churning of Earth's molten core produces Earth's magnetic field).

As well as rotating, the Earth has a tilt in its axis that brings the northern and southern hemispheres closer to and further ... the idea of being heavier on Jupiter than on Earth, but lighter ...