The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky. Stargazers in the U.S. will need a clear horizon to spot the planetary duo ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

This "excites" or heats up the gas molecules that are present in the air, causing them to glow in the ethereal curtains of red, green, and purple that we know as the northern lights. But the effect is ...

The infrared views, captured in 2023, shed light on the giant planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere—but they also reveal something unexpected ...

On our planet, these are known as Northern and ... get energized and this causes the famous red, green and purple auroras. Jupiter's astral show is much bigger and comes from multiple different ...

Aurorae occur when high-energy particles from space - primarily from the Sun - are funneled toward a planet's poles by its magnetic ... with their characteristic green, red, and purple hues. Jupiter's ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

Inferring planet composition from observations of clouds Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants like Neptune and Uranus are a major focus of current space missions and large telescopes ...