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

Jupiter reaches opposition, making it brighter and larger than at any other time this year. A rare transit of its moon Callisto adds to the event, visible with binoculars or a small telescope.

The new moon tonight turns the sky into a natural observatory, stripping away glare and letting Jupiter, Saturn and the ...

The giant planet Jupiter is back in our evening sky this week. Fresh from its opposition with the sun on Jan. 10, it now lies as close to the Earth as it ...

Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be observed. This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion — and could be ...

Jupiter steals the spotlight in January as it reaches its brightest and biggest appearance of the year. The month also ...

In this wide-angle view you can see that winter's brightest stars connect into an enormous asterism called the Winter Hexagon ...

With the gas giants now close to their best, here are the best refractors, Maksutov-Cassegrain and Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes to help you see Saturn’s rings and the cloud bands of Jupiter. When you ...

Jupiter reaches opposition on Jan. 10, when it will shine all night at its brightest as Earth moves between the giant planet and the sun.

January has kept sky-gazers busy with a steady stream of celestial events. We're less than 10 days into the year, and we've already had a supermoon, the peak of the Quadrantids meteor shower and an ...