Weather permitting, Jupiter will not only be brighter than most other stars and planets in the evening sky, but will also be ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

Two close-ups of its moon Europa—where astrobiologists think microbial life may exist—21 flybys of far-out Callisto, and nine months in orbit around the biggest moon in the solar system ...

Besides Earth itself, Mars is the most-studied planet in the solar system. One reason for the abundance of probes ... Besides ...

Four tiny specks of light close by the giant planet are the biggest of the Jupiter’s 95 moons, Nigel Henbest writes ...

The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, Europa — with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A ...

Earth will align between the Sun and Jupiter, creating a rare astronomical event known as Jupiters opposition.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 79 moons. The four largest moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) can be seen from Earth with just a pair of binoculars.