For generations, Jupiter has been shorthand for a straightforward idea: the biggest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant ...

A photograph taken with a Nikon Z 8 camera and shared online in April 2024 shows an authentic close-up view of Jupiter. However, Google reverse-image search results showed the photograph was first ...

February’s night skies hold a certain celestial splendor that only enthusiastic and vigorous skywatchers have the fortitude and good fortune to enjoy.

On Saturday night, Jupiter will become in perfect alignment with the Earth and Sun causing the planet to appear the biggest and brightest it will be all year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal. The solar system’s largest planet displays ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact, you should be able to easily see it long before twilight fades. Jupiter is ...

On April 18, 2024, a photograph was shared to X (formerly Twitter), allegedly showing a close-up photograph of Jupiter. "Using my Nikon Z 8, I captured this amazing shot of Jupiter," the post read.

Just in time for Halloween, a spooky face has been spotted hiding in plain sight on the surface of one of our planetary neighbors. In the Jet N7 region of Jupiter, in the far north of the massive ...

Jupiter is by far the largest planet in our solar system. The huge ball of hydrogen and helium circling the sun is about 88,000 miles wide, meaning more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside it.

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what astronomers think and have already begun to decipher its secret. Identified first by ...