As darkness falls, Jupiter, nearing its biggest and brightest for 2024 rises north of due east and remains on display ...

"It's an exciting time on the spacecraft, getting these key deployments done." NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully ...

Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.

Since 2016, the orbiter’s JunoCam instrument has captured spectacular images of the gas giant. The latest batch of shots is ...

Astronomers at UC Berkeley have identified mysterious Earth-sized spots at Jupiter’s poles with rapid life cycles.

While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, University of California, Berkeley, ...

NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space in November when it re-entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up ...

A "swarm" of tiny robo-fish developed by NASA could soon be hunting for alien sea creatures in oceans on the moons around ...

On November 21, 1676, the Danish astronomer Ole Rømer discovered the speed of light. Before Rømer figured it out, scientists ...

The Great Red Spot is not the only Earth-sized atmospheric disturbance seen on Jupiter. That dramatic storm remains number ...