"Orbital dynamics allows you to start to think about all those fun, different aspects of what makes our planet habitable, and ask how normal it is to have a habitable planet."

North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. This week features a rare conjunction.

Jupiter occupies a volume so vast that every other planet in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, could fit inside it with room to spare. The gas giant holds a volume roughly 1,321 times that of Earth,

Three planets, two stars and one moon create a spectacular June sky show.

Our latest video explores the king of gas giants through a fascinating jupiter documentary, examining the long-standing debate about its core composition. We look at data from the juno spacecraft to understand this mysterious planet.

SINGAPORE: Look towards the evening sky over the next few days and you might glimpse two bright planets gathered for a celestial meeting.

Every planet in the Solar System, including Earth, orbits a shared center of mass rather than the geometric center of the Sun. Jupiter is so massive that this balance point, called the barycenter, periodically shifts beyond the Sun’s surface entirely.

A new study suggests that a massive structure beyond Jupiter trapped the cosmic dust needed to form the first building blocks of our solar system.