Jupiter’s nights are anything but dark. Recent images from a fleet of NASA spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The moon and Jupiter will be close on Sunday, Dec. 7, lighting up the eastern sky a couple of hours after dark — and there’s ...

A composite of two observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show Jupiter's aurora.NASA/ESA/J. Nichols (University of Leicester) An astronomer's map of a heat wave on Jupiter helped solve the ...

For 40 years, Jupiter's intense aurora polaris, also known as northern and southern lights, have puzzled astronomers around the world. Now, scientists have finally uncovered the mystery behind the gas ...

Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful aurora – only not in ways the researchers ...

This week European and American researchers seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gather simultaneous observations from the NASA/ESA Cassini/Huygens space mission and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

For 40 years, Jupiter's intense aurora polaris, also known as northern and southern lights, have puzzled astronomers around the world. Now, scientists have finally uncovered the mystery behind the gas ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the sun ...