Hubble Space Telescope image of an ultraviolet view ... by NASA in honor of Jupiter reaching opposition, which is when Jupiter, Earth, and the sun are aligned, with Earth positioned directly ...

Telescopes show Earth's sister planet swelling to an apparent diameter wider than Jupiter, while its phase thins dramatically from 37% to 15% lit. Soon after sunset on Feb. 1, direct your ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation ... have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event ... given it is much closer to Earth than Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun. Related: Night sky, January 2025: What you can see tonight ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth ... 2027.Jupiter will appear ...

while others take up to three Earth years to make a full lap (for comparison, Jupiter orbits the sun once every 4,333 days). Astronomers call these gas giants "warm Jupiters," so a really massive ...