Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether you know it or not.

The particular cloud chemistries are likely the magic behind the planet's vibrant colors, but the exact reasons for Jupiter's painted appearance remains unknown. Below the gassy upper layers ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Big storms can strip some parts of Jupiter's atmosphere of ammonia, while leaving buried reservoirs of the gas elsewhere.

(CNN)-- Scientists don't know why, but one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has disappeared -- again. Like a wayward pet, the belt has gone missing before and has always returned. "This is a big ...

like Jupiter and Saturn, which "also have multiple cloud layers and high-altitude hot spots" (except that it's floating through space without a star, that is.) Astronomers also aren't ruling out ...

The researchers calculated that hydrogen and helium would separate about 11,000 kilometers below the cloud tops of Jupiter, down to a depth of about 22,000 kilometers. Senior physics writer Emily ...