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What are the two bright stars in the east? It may have been these planets

Wondering what planets are visible right now? Jupiter and Venus are meeting up in the sky, at least from our vantage point.

Venus-Jupiter conjunction: How to catch Venus and Jupiter’s brief embrace before they drift apart

Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in our skies, came within a degree of each other on 12 August, creating a rare and ...

Watch How: Jupiter Spins In Animated Hubble Space Telescope Observations

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

Lucy spacecraft could visit an additional sub-km asteroid with a course correction

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system ...

Californians, here's how to see Venus, Jupiter and a meteor shower all in one week

Jupiter and Venus will appear closest over Aug. 11-12, according to NASA, appearing as if they’re “grazing” each other despite still being millions of miles apart. It comes as a popular meteor shower, ...