NEW YORK (AP) — Northern lights may be visible in parts of the U.S. Monday night following weekend solar storms.

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Webb and Hubble telescopes, released a video of Jupiter's tempestuous roiling auroras, which you can watch above.

The southern dark oval (SUDO) tends to pop up in the same place near Jupiter’s south pole, and it can grow to an enormous size, roughly as big as North America. Why the southern hemisphere ...

A Bitcoin investor and three polar explorers blasted off on Monday in the first rocket ride over the North and South Poles. Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, flew southward in a SpaceX ...

One group uncovered a constellation of nine cyclones over Jupiter's north pole and six over the south pole. The wind speeds exceed Category 5 hurricane strength in places, reaching 220 mph (350 kph).

the Large Magellanic Cloud serves as a good rough guide to Jupiter’s South Celestial Pole. Saturn’s axis is the most closely aligned with Earth’s of any planet and we share a north pole star.

While Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, a team of astronomers have discovered equally large spots at the planet’s north and south poles that appear and ...

Jupiter is well-known for its Great Red Spot, but astronomers have recently discovered equally large spots at the giant gas planet’s north and south poles that appear and disappear at random.

While Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered equally large spots at the planet’s north and ...