NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its mission. The $1 billion spacecraft completed its latest close flyby on Oct. 23, ...

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional ...

One photo of Jupiter may be worth a thousand words, but what about more than half a million? Veteran astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy of Arizona unveiled this spectacular photo of Jupiter this month ...

A NASA spacecraft spotted an eerie green light coming from Jupiter. The light is believed to be the glow from a bolt of lightning near the planet's north pole. Unlike Earth, where lightning bolts ...

The shocking findings were part of a recent study in which astronomers effectively peered back in time to discover what Jupiter was like in its early years. Jupiter is not only the largest in the ...

Jupiter is not quite as large as astronomers thought, according to the first measurements of its radius taken in more than 40 years. Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like ...