A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast.

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Pottsville winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact you should be able to easily see it long before twilight fades.

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.

A new international study co-led by Aix-Marseille University and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) reveals that the striking contrast in the water contents of Jupiter’s Galilean moons was ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 6The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky ...

Greetings stargazers. The current sunspot cycle maximum continues to amaze. Several times during the past year, the Aurora ...

Sunrise and sunset • Sun rises at 7:10 a.m. and sets at 5:21 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:36 a.m. and sets at 5:52 p.m. on the 28th Moon’s phases • Full “Snow Moon” on the 1st • New moon on ...

As Providenciales continues to see record growth, tourists and businesses are migrating to South Caicos, a best-kept secret ...

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." ...

Jupiter may be a bit more petite than expected, and that could have a big impact on how scientists model the mysterious ...

The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, when hearing about the invention of the telescope in 1608, decided to make his own instrument. However, in January of 1610, when he applied it ...

Jupiter can be easily spotted in the constellation Gemini, located just below and to the right of Castor and Pollux, the two brightest stars in the constellation. Castor appears white and Pollux has ...