The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

In an unofficial sense, I would like to dub today (April 10) as "View a Planet Day." In the early morning hours will be two planets that will appear very close to each other and then later that ...

The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on December 22 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability ...

While the Hubble Space Telescope has been snapping gorgeous photos of Jupiter for decades, new Jupiter images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in August, invite comparison. Studied side by ...

It’ll land at Lacus Mortis, a larger crater on the near side of the moon. As many as three other CLPS program missions could also take off in 2023, according to NASA’s website . Jupiter and ...

Astronomers find 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter 00:33. Jupiter will look bigger and brighter than normal on Monday night as it rises opposite of the sun and reaches its closest point to Earth in ...

This photo of Jupiter, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope on June 27, 2019, features the Giant Red Spot, a storm the size of Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.

Vivid clouds swirl across Jupiter's skies like colorful brushstrokes across a painting in a new photo from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The image, taken during the spacecraft's 61st close flyby of ...

James Webb Space Telescope shows Jupiter in a new light. ... 2.12 micrometers to yellow-green, and 1.5 micrometers to cyan. In the wide-field view showing the world’s surroundings, ...

This is occurring because Jupiter will be in opposition on Saturday, December 7, which means that it is directly opposite from the sun as seen from Earth. This happens every 13 months.

A European spacecraft is about to zip by both Earth and the Moon in the space of 24 hours. In the early 2030s, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission will be the first European probe to ...

From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides in 2024. Here are some of the highlights of this year in space.