Jupiter is about to dominate the midwinter sky, turning January evenings into a showcase for the biggest planet in the solar system. As Earth lines up almost perfectly with Jupiter and the sun, the ...

Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they knew about giant-planet weather. The Great Red Spot, once a planetary icon ...

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WASHINGTON — Scientists studying Jupiter's weather for nearly 40 years made some unexpected and slightly mysterious discoveries about how temperatures in the planet's different belts and zones ...

Look into the night sky just after sunset this Saturday and you could see a rare celestial event. Six planets — Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter — will align, creating a sort of ...