The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on May 27.

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

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 ...

Wednesday, June 25, is the new moon in Cancer, and according to astrologers, this month’s new phase is significant as Jupiter ...

You can spot Jupiter hanging low in the western sky. It shines at magnitude –1.9 and becomes visible about 20 minutes after sunset, standing 8° high.

On Friday (Jan. 10), the moon will pass near Jupiter, meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus. Viewers can expect to see the bright moon and Jupiter shortly after sunset.

Mars and Jupiter are cozying up in the night sky for their closest rendezvous this decade.They'll be so close Wednesday, at least from our perspective, that just a sliver of moon could fit between ...

By Deane Morrison During July the morning sky hosts three bright planets, each following its own path. As the month begins, ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.