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

Instead, scientists are looking into existing spacecraft already in orbit around other planets. Harvard Professor Avi Loeb ...

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

Venus and Jupiter will meet in a conjunction in the early morning hours of Aug. 12. Here's everything you need to know to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

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 ...

The most recent mission to visit Jupiter was New Horizons, a NASA probe bound for the dwarf planet Pluto that launched in January 2006. New Horizons flew by Jupiter between January and May 2007.

On Sept. 7, 2023, NASA’s Juno mission captured an image of an area in one of Jupiter’s northern regions called Jet N7, according to NASA.

Jupiter has about 80 moons, but by far the most interesting to planetary scientists are Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io. In recent months JunoCam has imaged Ganymede, Europa and Io.

Aug. 5, 2011 -- NASA's Juno spacecraft launched today on a five-year trip to Jupiter, the greatest of the planets in the solar system, and one to which we on Earth may owe our own existence.

NASA's Juno to enter Jupiter orbit, try to explain how solar system started The amount of water inside Jupiter — which the mission will also determine— will give scientists another clue about ...