Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in ...

The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window narrows as the Sun sets later each day. Mars is past its best, but remains ...

Jupiter will be a bit lower in the sky, near Taurus ... The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed and distance.

When Nasa's Juno probe approached Jupiter it caught sight of its four ... On Monday, stargazers may have noticed an unusual sight in the sky above the UK. The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else.

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this is the first time we have strong evidence that such a planet actually exists in a polar orbit around two stars. The two brown dwarfs appear as a single source in the sky, but astronomers know ...

It is likely that the four large moons were formed at the same time as Jupiter and in its immediate vicinity. For the small moons, it is assumed that they are more likely to be asteroids captured by ...

The weather on Jupiter—much like that on Earth—not just by the chaos going on inside the atmosphere but also by external forces including space weather driven by the Sun. In a study published ...