Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the nighttime sky. The moon, nearly two nights past first quarter and appearing ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, around 134 light-years away from Earth.

Jupiter's four largest moons — Europa, Io, Ganymede and Callisto — are viewable with binoculars or a small telescope. Late in the month, Mercury will be visible near the horizon. The planet is ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

As yesterday, Jupiter is a bright point of light in the southern sky after sunset, located above the red giant Aldebaran early in the evening before Taurus starts to set. Through a telescope ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

So, this happens because it’s that time of the year when Earth gets between ... Through a telescope, you can check out its famous cloud bands, the Great Red Spot and four of its biggest moons. Jupiter ...

Astronomers at NASA say there's a small chance a distant asteroid could hit Earth three days before Christmas in 2032 - but ...