A planetary conjunction takes place when two or more planets seem to align closely in the sky as viewed from Earth, despite ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

Wake up early to witness the year's most dazzling planetary pairing as Venus and Jupiter close in for a celestial rendezvous.

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system ...

Jupiter and Venus are two of the brightest objects in the night sky. When you know where to look, it is very easy to spot ...

On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The ...

Jupiter's four Galilean moons will line up in front of Jupiter in the early morning sky on Aug. 8. The predawn hours of Aug. 8 present a perfect opportunity to see Jupiter's four largest moons line up ...

The McDonough Meteorite is a fragment of a space rock that crashed through the roof of a house in McDonough, Georgia, on June 26, and is estimated to be 4.56 billion years old, making it about 20 ...

Venus and Jupiter have been approaching one another until they will appear to "nearly collide" in the sky on April 30, according to NASA. In fact, it's the closest they've appeared since 2016 and ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. When you purchase ...

In the Jet N7 region of Jupiter, in the far north of the massive planet, this bizarre face was spotted hiding in the clouds. The face was caught on camera by NASA 's Juno mission on September 7 ...

This year promises to be out of this world when it comes to space missions, launches and the next steps in cosmic exploration. In 2023, NASA will kick off a trek to a metal world, a spacecraft ...