The full buck moon will reach its peak illumination on Thursday, July 10. It’s just one of this month’s celestial highlights.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The full moon will come "with a celestial bonus—setting in the early morning sky near a dazzling alignment of Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter." ...

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

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds ...

October 23, 2024, saw the Juno spacecraft’s most recent perijove, or the point where it’s closest to Jupiter.The orbiter’s color camera (the JunoCam) caught detailed views of the planet’s ...

Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) zoomed into Jupiter’s poles to capture the planet’s fast-varying auroral features, which are 100 times brighter than the ones seen on Earth.

Jupiter's atmospheric phenomena, like winds, can reach deep down, to depths of around 2,000 miles into the atmosphere. What we see from the top of the atmosphere is just a fraction of what is ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Jupiter was about twice its current radius and possessed a magnetic field roughly 50 times stronger than today around 3.8 million years after the solar system's ...

One of Jupiter’s most recognizable attributes is its sheer size.With a diameter over 88,800 miles, our solar system’s largest planet is 11 times as wide as Earth and twice as massive as all ...