The Latest Breaking News from Jupiter

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The energy of moon-forming can have a big say in whether large or doomed smaller moons are built.

It's a treat for astronomy fans.

The discovery of water on Enceladus excited the scientific world – now, by 2040 a robot probe will investigate if we are alone in the universe

Using a telescope perched on a mountain in Arizona, scientists have managed to photograph the moon Io in amazing detail, rivalling images taken with space telescopes

Jupiter and Earth's oceans have more in common than you might think.

The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the Sun, is over a hundred times larger than the distance from the Sun to…

What do the stars have in store for you this month?

The dark skies of the new moon of June 2024 will allow some of the naked eye planets to stand out late in the night after midnight.