Jupiter

A rare planetary alignment will peak predawn on Friday (June 24) when the crescent moon joins the party. An alignment like this will not occur again until 2040.

Alien life in the deep global ocean of a water world could receive its nutrients through a shell of high-pressure ice around the planet's core.

Jupiter's innards are full of the remains of baby planets that the gas giant gobbled up as it expanded to become the behemoth we see today, scientists have found.

The moon will approach Jupiter in the early hours of Tuesday morning (June 21) on the summer solstice. The duo will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.

A rare parade of planets is coming into better view in the second half of June, and even the moon will join the show.

Jupiter's moon Europa is set to obscure a star while being shadowed by its own host planet.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is one step closer to starting its journey to Jupiter's icy moon.

The rare alignment of five naked-eye planets will begin to "break up" as they appear to grow increasingly distant from one another in the morning sky.

Hang on tight as you watch this new footage of Jupiter. This sped-up view shows the perspective of NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew above the gas giant on April 9.

A "planet parade" will see all five naked-eye worlds line up in their proper orbital order from the sun in Earth's sky this month.

See Mars and Jupiter appear to practically high-five each other in the early-morning sky this Memorial Day weekend.

A new image captures two planets with ancient significance meeting up over the famous old city of Rome on Sunday (May 1).

The Great Red Spot is like the grandfather of Jupiter's storms. It has been roaming for many, many years — but recently we’ve seen it get smaller.

Tune into a Virtual Telescope Project livestream to watch live as Jupiter and Venus meet in the night sky.

The International Space Station and China's space station photobombed a four-planet line-up in the early morning sky for Italian astrophysicist Gianluca Masi.

Venus and Jupiter — the two brightest planets in the sky — are headed for a close encounter tomorrow (April 30).

Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, Io, boasts grand, meandering dunes created by lava flows beneath the moon's surface, a new study shows.

The celestial highlight in the days ahead will involve the three brightest objects in the nighttime sky: the moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter.

Giant Jupiter and the shadow of its biggest moon, Ganymede, dominate the view in a newly shared image based on a NASA spacecraft data.