Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back another batch of mesmerizing images of the fifth planet from the sun. On Dec. 28, 2024, during its 68th close flyby of Jupiter, the school bus-sized probe ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

(CNN) - New spectacular images of Jupiter are being shared for the first time. A bevy of “mind-blowing” images are shedding new light on the solar system’s biggest planet and doing it in the ...

Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Jupiter will reach opposition on Saturday, December 7. The planet will rise in the east-northeast, and be visible throughout the entire night. According to NASA, Jupiter’s opposition occurs ...

The popcorn ball is named Jupiter in honor of the largest planet in our solar system. It weighed in at 230 pounds and 6 feet wide, continuing a tradition of the past 13 years created by Chagrin ...

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...