Jupiter reaches a stunning opposition, Mars is brilliant, Saturn and Venus light the evening sky, and Mercury rises before ...

W ith the moon sliding past a brilliant Venus — now crazy-bright after sunset — and Jupiter reaching its brightest and best ...

Astronomers have discovered mysterious, Earth-sized dark spots at Jupiter’s poles that appear and disappear unpredictably.

New research reveals that Jupiter’s magnetic tornadoes generate massive Earth-sized storms, visible only in ultraviolet light ...

The dark UV ovals were first spotted by NASA’s Hubble spacecraft in the late 1990s, but have only recently been studied in ...

Observations between 2015 and 2022 show that these features are more prevalent at the south pole, appearing in 75% of the ...

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

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

Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken Feb. 5, 1979, by Voyager 1. Io, Europa, and Callisto are seen against Jupiter disk.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will pass within 3.83 million miles of the surface of the sun on Dec. 24, and multiple planets will ...

Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A new ...

Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...