Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars are visible to the naked eye, but Neptune and Uranus require a telescope to spot, as they are too far away. Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Other planets that are around the same size are WASP-17 b at 1,324 light-years away and KELT-9b ... researchers have discovered so far at 12.3 times the mass of Jupiter. They found it in 2001 ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Earth's faster motion around the sun is causing Jupiter to fall behind us. By the end of February, Jupiter is 41.4 light-minutes away and appears nearly 12 percent smaller than it did when it loomed ...

That’s because Venus is between Earth and the sun, unlike the outer planet Jupiter. It is consequently closer to the sun as seen from Earth, never appearing to get too far away from it.

It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 miles (422,000 km) — also similar to how far away the moon orbits Earth — but it travels much faster than its lunar counterpart, whipping ...