Reaching Jupiter is not simply a matter of flying fast enough. Distance, orbital mechanics, fuel, radiation, mission timing, ...

Jupiter’s best-known feature is not a solid mark on a surface but a vast vortex embedded in moving cloud bands. The Great Red ...

Could Jupiter become an artificial Sun? A radical proposal explores shielding Earth and extending its habitability for 9.1 ...

Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive. Saturn lacked ...

NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its ...

Jupiter is the object you’ll want to be watching this evening, as Ganymede prepares to transit along with its shadow. About an hour before that event starts, Ganymede and Europa line up as the two ...

The subsurface findings could transform how scientists study volcanoes across the solar system — including those on Earth.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Jupiter as seen by NASA spacecraft JUno on its 48th orbit, ...