Look east before dawn on Wednesday, Aug. 14, to see the giant planet and the Red Planet just a third of a degree from one another in a rare planetary conjunction.

The white light of Jupiter will contrast beautifully with the red shine of Mars. Prime viewing for the path crossing is Wednesday morning, a few hours before sunrise, peering toward the eastern sky.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.

Space & Spaceflight Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shapeshifting in Ways ‘Never Identified Before’ The famous red eye of the storm squeezes in and out for reasons unknown.

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, will be visible to sky gazers on Earth. Here’s when to look out for it and how to find it in the night sky.

Just look up. December's cosmic calendar is packed with two meteor showers—the Geminids and Ursids—and the best view of Jupiter until 2026.

In a solar system full of wonders, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot still stands out. This lushly red oval is obvious even through small telescopes, looking like a baleful eye staring out from the ...

All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — with them, you can see Uranus and Neptune, too.

“To the untrained eye, Jupiter’s striped clouds and famous red storm might appear to be static, stable, and long-lived over many years,” Fletcher said.

High-resolution images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have revealed that it’s not as stable as we thought. Instead, the Spot is squeezing in and out, with NASA ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.