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

Now three months past its conjunction with the sun in March, Saturn is currently well separated from the dawn glow. On June 1 ...

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

Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern Macedonia on the night of April 29, complete with a pair of stargazing swans ...

On the evening of May 27, the 23-hour-old moon will appear low in the northwestern sky starting about a half-hour after ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest view to date of a massive young star gulping down swirling gas, offering a rare ...

The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...

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.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...