Jupiter will make its closest path to the Earth and will shine its brightest on Dec. 7. This aerial display occurs when Earth positions itself between the Sun and Jupiter. There are a few options for ...

Every night is a good night to look through a telescope (provided it’s not cloudy), but if you’re looking for an excuse, Jupiter is lining itself up for some candid closeups. At its farthest point, ...

The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

Stargazers hoping to catch sight of August's Venus-Jupiter Conjunction should keep their eyes to the skies on Tuesday morning. From Earth, both planets shine the brightest and will appear together ...

A Hubble Space Telescope portrait of Jupiter, captured in August 2019, shows the gas giant's cloud bands and storms in detail, including its iconic Great Red Spot. NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space ...

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a struggle for survival. That’s because Earth is now a moon of Jupiter. Why ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Benjamin Roulston is Assistant Professor of Physics, ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...