The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

When people think of meteor showers, they often picture themselves reclining under a star-filled sky and watching fleeting ...

The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean ...

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

The Moon passes 5° north of Jupiter at 9 A.M. EDT. Just six percent illuminated by this evening, you can try to spot the young crescent Moon hanging above the gas giant in the western sky after sunset ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

NASA’s Juno spacecrafthas once again delivered breathtaking images of Jupiter, capturing the giant planet’s swirling storms and cloud bands in extraordinary detail. These latest photos, taken during ...

Galileo, who had observed Jupiter’s four major moons (now also called as the Galilean moons ... got more character thanks to advances in astronomy. Simon Marius was the first to employ ...

one of Jupiter’s four moons discovered by Galilei Galileo in 1610. The Italian’s discovery came at great personal cost, but also spun off modern astronomy. What we are about to find out in a ...

Except for medicine, astronomy is the most ancient of the sciences ... For instance, Galileo found the four large moons of Jupiter, known ever since as the Galilean moons, almost as soon as he aimed ...

Over the years, astronomers have also detected faint aurorae in the atmospheres of Jupiter’s largest moons (the “Galilean Moons ... a professor of astronomy at Boston University and ...