Washington, May 21 (ANI): Three planets - Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will present a spectacular sky show during the last week of May.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): May 28th, 2013, Venus and Jupiter will pass within one degree of one other (about twice the apparent size of the full moon, it has been predicted.

Washington, May 7 (ANI): Thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers are beginning to dissect an exotic class of exoplanets, called hot Jupiters, revealing raging winds and other aspects of their turbulent nature.

Washington, April 30 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has identified and characterized two new exoplanets thanks to combined observations from the Kepler space telescope plus the SOPHIE and HARPS-N spectrographs.

Washington, Apr 23 (ANI): ESA's Herschel space observatory has solved a long-standing mystery as to the origin of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.

Washington, April 5 (ANI): A new study led by a NASA researcher has found that Hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa,.

Washington, April 5 (ANI): Concentrations of volcanic activity in Jupiter's moon Io are significantly displaced from where they are expected to be based on models that predict how the moon's interior is heated, according to NASA and European Space Agency researchers.

Washington, March 22 (ANI): While Tiger Woods confirms his relationship with new girlfriend Lindsey Vonn, his former wife Elin Nordegren hit the field at a kids' game in Jupiter, Florida, to coach their daughter's soccer team.

Washington, March 15 (ANI): A team of international scientists has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size like planet beyond our solar system.

Washington, March 15 (ANI): Using images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have found new evidence that dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called "hot spots" are created by a Rossby wave, a pattern also seen in Earth's atmosphere and oceans.

Washington, March 13 (ANI): Using a new high-tech gadget, astronomers have observed four planets orbiting a star relatively close to the sun in unprecedented detail, revealing the roughly ten-Jupiter-mass planets to be among the most exotic ones known.

Washington, March 6 (ANI): A new theoretical modelling has provided clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system-Jupiter and Saturn-might have formed and evolved.

Washington, March 6 (ANI): The surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa could offer clues to the potentially habitable ocean beneath, according to an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology.

Washington, March 1 (ANI): Astronomers have found what seems to be a planet in the process of being formed, still embedded in a thick disc of gas and dust.

London, Feb 16 (ANI): NASA is planning to send a space probe to Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter and the most likely place in the Solar System for extraterrestrial life, within the next ten years.

Washington, January 29 (ANI): Volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io affects auroral activity in the planet' magnetosphere, researchers have revealed.

Washington, January 17 (ANI): Jupiter, the second-brightest planet, will be appearing less than a finger-width from the Moon throughout North America on January 21, 2013.

Washington, December 25 (ANI): Take a few seconds out of your Christmas celebration and check out the east-southeast sky just after sunset to see the nearly full moon next to the bright planet Jupiter.

Washington, December 17 (ANI): Though NASA is devoting many of its exploration resources to Mars these days, the agency is also thinking about ways to investigate the possible habitability of Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon.

Washington, December 6 (ANI): An infant star surrounded by a swirling disk of dust and gas more than 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus is the youngest still-forming solar system yet seen, according to astronomers.

Washington, November 28 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered vast belts of comets surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host nothing larger than Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds, using ESA's Herschel space observatory.

Washington, November 28 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered vast belts of comets surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host nothing larger than Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds, using ESA's Herschel space observatory.

Washington, November 20 (ANI): Using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have discovered a "super-Jupiter" around the bright star Kappa Andromedae, which now holds the record for the most massive star known to host a directly imaged planet or lightweight brown dwarf companion.

Washington, November 18 (ANI): A new theory the suggests that one young star may yank another's developing solar system has shed light on a long-standing puzzle - why Earth's orbit is tipped 7 degree relative to the sun's equator.

London, Nov 14 (ANI): A young "homeless planet," up to seven times the size of Jupiter and with no gravitational ties, has been spotted by scientists for the very first time.