The crescent moon will shine close to the gas giant Jupiter in the morning sky on July 23, with its shadow-veiled disk softly ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has provided extraordinary insights into the mysteries of Jupiter and its moons. Yet, during its 57th ...

Initially expected to last only eight orbits, JunoCam functioned normally through the spacecraft’s first 34 orbits.

A dozen new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, including 11 normal moons and one “oddball” moon, according to Carnegie Institution for Science.

They also offer further evidence of Jupiter’s influence on the broader architecture of the solar system. For the study, the researchers combined analysis of the orbits of Jupiter’s moons near Jupiter ...

Astronomers are still finding moons at Jupiter, 400 years after Galileo used his spyglass to spot the first ones. The latest discovery of a dozen small moons brings the total to 79, the most of ...

While the moons are visible through 7×50 binoculars, if you want to catch these events in detail and enjoy the beauty of Jupiter’s colorful clouds, a telescope with at least 6 inches of ...

Jupiter was once as much as 2.5 larger than today. To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea and Thebe ...

Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, used to be even bigger, according to a new study. The cloud of gas and dust from which the sun and planets formed dissipated around 4.5 billion years ago.

The last time the two planets were this close and visible from Earth was in 1623, just 14 years after Galileo built his first telescope and around the time Jupiter's moons were discovered.

Adams and Batygin discovered that, approximately 3.8 million years after the solar system's first solids appeared, Jupiter’s radius was nearly twice its current size.

Jupiter will be at its brightest all year on Saturday, Dec. 7. Break out your binoculars for a chance at spotting its four largest moons.