The biggest planet in our solar system is hovering over the North Carolina skyline throughout January, and stargazers will ...
Jupiter makes its closest approach on January 9, just 393 million miles away, shortly before reaching its opposition on ...
Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights (aurora ...
Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they ...
NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured auroras on Jupiter that have hundreds of times more energy than those here on Earth. Jupiter's auroras are like the "Northern Lights, but way bigger!" NASA ...
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 ...
If you’ve been seeing an unusually bright ‘star’ in the sky recently, it’s actually Jupiter, which will shine at its ...