NASA takes advantage of the Hubble Space Telescope’s powerful imaging capabilities to photograph both neighboring and distant objects in space, and sometimes that includes the very planets that reside ...

Each year, the Hubble Space Telescope spends some time looking at the outer planets of our solar system. In late June, during one of these observation periods, Hubble took a stunning detailed ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter’s clouds in this new image taken on 27 June 2019. It features the planet’s trademark Great Red Spot and a ...

The newly launched JUICE Jupiter mission, Europe's first voyage to the outer solar system, could pave the way for even bolder efforts.

Hubble's new portrait of Jupiter Date: August 8, 2019 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: A new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red ...

An Ariane 5 rocket carrying the European Space Agency's $1.7 billion Jupiter probe was hauled to its launch stand in French Guiana Wednesday, setting the stage for launch Thursday on an eight-year ...

A French astrophotographer recently snapped shots of the moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in a single evening, and rearranged them to create a striking composite image. Each ...

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life.

Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic world in the solar system, was imaged from just 7,260 miles away. ... Space photo of the week: Jupiter's seething volcano moon gets a close-up.

This space rock veered too close to Jupiter and was torn apart by the intense Jovian gravity, creating fragments up to a half-mile wide. The much smaller, recent impact can be seen below.

Jupiter is known as the king of planets. The swirling gas giant could fit 1,000 Earths inside it. It's an absolute unit, a beautiful chonk. This Saturday, Dec. 7, brings the best Jupiter viewing ...