The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter just revealed mechanisms driving mammoth storms in the Jovian atmosphere. Storms on Jupiter form ammonia-rich hail — called mushballs — in the atmosphere of the ...

Jupiter's upper atmosphere is not as boring as astronomers previously thought. During a study of the region above Jupiter's well-known Great Red Spot using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

Nearly three decades ago, a 2-kilometre-wide comet broke apart and plunged into the cloud layers of Jupiter. In just the past few years, astronomers have used the aftermath of that colossal impact to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the ...

Astronomers have spotted some bizarre patterns in Jupiter's atmosphere, just above its famous Great Red Spot. The region was originally thought of as quite boring, but has now been discovered to be ...

NASA announced that a new aspect of Jupiter’s atmosphere has been discovered thanks to the space agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists studying images captured by the telescope in July 2022 ...

Recent observations by an amateur astronomer reveal that Jupiter’s clouds may not consist of ammonia ice as previously assumed. Using a technique called band-depth analysis, Steve Hill mapped ammonia ...

Astronomy enthusiasts and even the general public can enjoy watching Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, as it ...

Jupiter is about to dominate the midwinter sky, turning January evenings into a showcase for the biggest planet in the solar ...

This result is a spacecraft that NASA launched in 2011 and has been observing Jupiter since 2016JuneauIt was brought about by. Since the clouds made mainly of ammonia exist on the surface of Jupiter ...