The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

Learn how ice crystallizes on the surface of Europa, a moon of Jupiter, may hold promise for signs of extraterrestrial life ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

Jupiter’s rule of the evening sky is coming to a close. Catch some action there while you can, shortly after sunset this ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

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 study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

its handle sticking straight up into the sky. Jupiter’s Galilean moons are also visible this evening, but spotting them may be challenging with the planet so low. If you want to try, note that ...

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct ...