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

The Perseid meteor shower may be an annual event for Earth, but the comet responsible for the meteors hasn’t been near our planet in decades. NASA says: "The meteors are debris ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

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

Jupiter and Venus are two of the brightest objects in the night sky. When you know where to look, it is very easy to spot ...

The Perseid meteor shower, among the most beautiful in the Northern Hemisphere, is expected to peak on the evenings of Aug.

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system ...

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...

A formation known as the "Dumbbell Nebula" – nicknamed because it looks like a dumbbell – should be easy to spot throughout ...

Jupiter's four Galilean moons will line up in front of Jupiter in the early morning sky on Aug. 8. The predawn hours of Aug. 8 present a perfect opportunity to see Jupiter's four largest moons line up ...

Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 5, 2011, ...