Jupiter is a massive, terrifying planet. Despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the ...

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 mission’s 54th close flyby of the ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation. Now, scientists have come up with one to explain the strange compositional ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...

Dazzling 'dawn storms' that illuminate Jupiter's poles are 10x more intense than the gas giant's regular auroras.

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It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. In a newly released picture, a green bolt of ...

The US space agency's Juno spacecraft flew over the storm late Monday, offering humanity's closest look yet at the iconic feature of our solar system's largest planet. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds appears to form the shape of a dolphin gliding ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and water encased in a hard water ice shell that rain down like hail here on Earth.

A thunderstorm that raged in Jupiter’s atmosphere for weeks was fortuitously captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, giving astronomers the most detailed look ever at a storm on the gas giant. On 29 ...