the links between Roman and Greek gods gradually came together to form one divine family that ruled over other gods, as well as mortals. The big three The three most important gods were Jupiter ...

On Friday, Dec. 6, Jupiter will reach a distance of 380 million miles from our planet, its closest point if the year. That’s ...

By the first century before the common era, however, his identity had merged with the more serious Roman god Jupiter. And this new Zeus/Jupiter was to become the supremely just, powerful ...

And they always feared the ‘evil eye!’ Statue of the Roman god, Jupiter, from Izmir in present day Turkey. The Romans had many gods and goddesses – they almost had one for every occasion.

Jupiter shines brightly in the east around 7 p.m. right now. Our solar system’s largest planet is nicely placed between the ...

Unlike its celestial neighbors—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—all of which were named after Greek ...

The name comes from the British, who controlled the area from 1763 to 1783 and adapted the Spanish name "Rio Jobe" (named ...

Jupiter — the gas giant, largest planet in our solar system, named for the Roman god of the sky who with his fearsome thunderbolt lorded over the entire universe — is about to be a little ...