Jupiter’s striking size, swirling gases, and dramatic bands in its atmosphere set it apart from every other planet. One of ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, will outshine everything in the midnight sky as it makes its annual closest approach to Earth. Known as opposition, the event is when Jupiter will ...

Since Jupiter's orbit takes 12 years ... space-based surveys like the upcoming Near-Earth Object (NEO) surveyor can be very ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

While Jupiter takes roughly 12 years to orbit ... The upshot, in an "Armageddon" context, is that resonant asteroids close enough to cross Earth's orbit will have multiple attempts to hit the ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

2024 — Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises -- especially ...

If two planets are very close together ... Thomas confirms that "yes," us people of Earth will be affected by the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in accordance with our zodiac signs.

Diminutive Barnard's Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the sun ... periods of between two and seven Earth days (for comparison, our sun's closest planet, Mercury, orbits in 88 days).