A planetary conjunction takes place when two or more planets seem to align closely in the sky as viewed from Earth, despite ...

Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in our skies, came within a degree of each other on 12 August, creating a rare and ...

Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in our solar system, are about to make their closest approach during their August ...

This week, skygazers have two celestial events to be excited about, with a Jupiter-Venus planetary conjunction and the Perseid meteor shower peak.

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in the northern hemisphere.

Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into ...

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 ...

NASA s Grail mission twin spacecraft to be launched next month to Earth s moon employs solar panels. Eight robotic craft already have flown to or near Jupiter and its many moons, as far back as the ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Soaring over Jupiter's poles, a NASA spacecraft arrived at the solar system's largest planet on a mission to peek behind the cloud tops. The final leg of the five-year voyage ...

In this artist’s concept, the moon Ganymede orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae on the moon generated by Ganymede’s magnetic fields.