Every night is a good night to look through a telescope (provided it’s not cloudy), but if you’re looking for an excuse, Jupiter is lining itself up for some candid closeups. At its farthest point, ...

Jupiter will make its closest path to the Earth and will shine its brightest on Dec. 7. This aerial display occurs when Earth positions itself between the Sun and Jupiter. There are a few options for ...

The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

I/ATLAS has already flown by Earth, but it seems like it might do what no one has predicted, come back. Since its discovery ...

If you thought the flickering green and red auroras of Earth were spectacular, that's nothing compared to Jupiter. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that the ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

On Christmas night, Jupiter will be one of the brightest objects in the sky — and a  stand-in for the mythical “Christmas ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Benjamin Roulston is Assistant Professor of Physics, ...

How different are Jupiter's gaseous layers and Earth's oceans? Perhaps not as much as you expect. Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps ...