The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Planets Venus (top), Jupiter (middle), and Mars (bottom) rise above a mountain peak at Yading reserve in China, 2015. Photograph by Jeff Dai, Science Photo Library By Andrew Fazekas ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

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No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

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During January 2025, a large planetary conjunction involving four planets - Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars - will be visible ...

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The planet is also even bigger than they had believed, she said. "I don't think we expected for there to be stuff out there that was so much bigger than Jupiter," she said.

The last time multiple planets lined up in a similar pattern was in June 2024, when Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune aligned across the sky. Here’s what to know about the ...