Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

Big, chewy snickerdoodle cookies are all about contrast. A crackly cinnamon-sugar coating gives way to a soft, tender center ...

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

Yes, there will be six planets above the horizon on February 28, 2026. No you won't be able to see them with the naked eye. But you can see the best of them tonight.

NASA describes deep hydrogen compression that eventually forms conductive metallic liquid, making Jupiter feel less like Earth and more like a continuous gradient of states. That alone breaks the old ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

Just look for the three bright stars that make up Orion’s belt. Betelgeuse is a bright reddish star to the upper left of the belt. It marks the right armpit of the nocturnal hunter, not exactly in the ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just gotten a bit smaller, at least according to the latest data. New ...

February may be the shortest month of the year, but it is packed with celestial events, according to a new skywatching update from NASA.

According to the new data, Jupiter's radius measures 71,488 kilometers (44,421 miles) at its equator, and the planet rises 66,842 kilometers from its center to its north pole. That makes it 4 ...

Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...