It is the largest object in the Solar System, but recent studies suggest it was once even twice as large as it is today.

It is the largest object in the Solar System, but recent studies suggest it was once twice as large as it is today.

According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 minutes before sunrise, low in the eastern sky and appearing near the moon. Venus and Saturn will be the easiest to spot — but for ...

Sky watchers will be able to spot three Solar System bodies in UK skies this weekend during a mini 'planet parade'. While the ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

Jupiter is the second brightest planet in the night sky, after Venus, which allowed early astronomers to spot and study the massive planet hundreds of years ago. In January 1610, astronomer ...

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the ...

A celestial leap is set to take place over two nights as the moon and Jupiter will appear to dance near to each other in the night sky.

Astronomy fans got to see a planetary alignment in mid-April featuring Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. Stargazers will once again be treated to a planetary alignment in May, though not as big ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds ... to plunge to Earth a half-century after its failed launch to Venus NASA astronauts step outside space station to perform the ...