As the day’s cloud clears for much of the region Thursday night, conditions become better for night sky viewing, including the currently active Taurid meteor shower.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – are all made of solid, rocky material, Jupiter is a gas giant with a composition similar t ...

Among many other revelations, the spacecraft is also credited with shedding light on Jupiter’s magnetic field, its strange ...

Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published recently in The ...

Onboard Juno is its famed camera, dubbed "JunoCam." A two megapixel visible light camera, JunoCam is designed "to study the ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There's nothing to walk ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) has long been a mystery to astronomers. This massive storm, larger than Earth, has swirled in ...

Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his long-exposure photographs from the International Space Station (ISS), recently ...

November’s planet parade begins just after sunset. If you have a super low southwest horizon, you may try to spot elusive Mercury. The swift planet will hug the southwest horizon ...