Jupiter
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Luminous beauty of Jupiter's auroras revealed by Hubble telescopeHuge non-stop lightshow dwarfs the Earth’s transient polar displays, say Nasa scientists, as they carry out project to observe effects of solars winds
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Juno space probe prepares to arrive at Jupiter after five years and 1.8bn milesOn Tuesday Nasa’s spacecraft will attempt to fall into orbit, hoping to understand how the planet formed, its weather system, and what drives its aurorae
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Juno probe closes in on Jupiter after five-year journey from EarthTo complete its mission Nasa spacecraft must survive circuit-frying radiation storm generated by gas giant’s magnetic field
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A planet on steroids. How Juno could solve the riddle of JupiterThe largest planet in the solar system may finally give up its secrets thanks to a new probe
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New radio map of Jupiter reveals ammonia plumes beneath cloudsThe nature of the gas giant’s atmosphere has long been something of a puzzle, but radio wave data has allowed scientists to peek beneath planet’s clouds
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The April night skyAlan Pickup on the highlights to look out for during the coming month, with Jupiter still brilliant in the evening and Mars growing steadily brighter just before dawn
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See Jupiter – by balloon! Nasa's retro space holiday posters – in picturesMars, Venus, 51 Pegasi: which will you visit? Nasa has imagined far-off planets as resorts in Visions of the Future, a series of free-to-download vintage-style posters
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Unmistakable Jupiter nears oppositionAlan Pickup looks at our largest planet, currently outshining the brightest stars, and its attendant bevy of moons
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Babylonians used geometry to track Jupiter 1400 years before EuropeansAstronomers discovered how to calculate Jupiter’s position with geometry between 350 and 50 BC, predating work of European scholars by 14 centuries
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Space 2016: what new frontiers will be explored this year? PodcastA look at this year’s most exciting missions, from a probe bound for Mars, a spacecraft arriving at Jupiter and a sample return mission from an asteroid
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The best space facts ever – in picturesDid you know Venus spins in the opposite direction to all the other planets in our solar system and there are thought to be trillions of diamonds on Uranus? Space experts Dr Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman tell all – with the help of Professor Astro Cat
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Jupiter's great red spot turns orange as storm abates, Hubble images revealMost recent images from Hubble space telescope show giant red spot on planet’s atmosphere has continued to shrink and has become more circular
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Search for life now extends to outer reaches of solar systemThe dramatic images of vast ice plains on Pluto beamed to Earth last week prove that it is regions on the edge of the solar system - long thought to be inert wastelands - that are the most exciting for scientists
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Starwatch: The April night skyAlan Pickup on the highlights of the coming month, with all the brighter planets on view, and Venus at her brilliant best
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Search the skies with the Bradford Robotic TelescopeFor the next month the telescope be free for Guardian readers to remotely observe the moon, nebulae, constellations and other objects in the night sky
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Dawn spacecraft starts to orbit Ceres in mission to photograph dwarf planetProbe that took off in 2007 will spend next 16 months studying Ceres’s surface in the hope it will solve the mystery of bright spots that has intrigued scientists
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Dawn on Ceres: Nasa probe to enter dwarf planet's orbitFirst rendezvous with the largest object in the asteroid belt separating Mars from Jupiter will reveal what Ceres is made of
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Why Nasa’s Europa mission has people excitedJupiter’s icy moon Europa may harbour extraterrestrial life. Nasa has announced a mission to go, but Esa will get there first
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67P and the sounds of the universeTom Service: Listen to the strange music of the spheres with recordings gathered by spacecraft
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Jupiter and Venus will align almost completely on Monday night
The closest conjunction of Venus and Jupiter since 2000 will be visible from even fairly low vantage points
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Could World Cup football be played on other planets?Fifa president Sepp Blatter has joked that one day football could be played on other planets. Here’s my unofficial guide to interplanetary football
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Antarctic lake find pushes known boundaries of what life can endure
Discovery of organisms in –13C waters under frozen surface could inform search for life on other worlds
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Live Juno spacecraft: Nasa mission arriving at Jupiter – watch live