The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

These spectacular lights resemble those seen on Earth, where they're generated when energetic particles interact with our planet's magnetic field, but Jupiter's auroras are believed to proceed ...

In a 2018 Astronomy & Astrophysics paper titled “Small impacts on the giant planet Jupiter,” Ricardo Hueso and colleagues estimated that small objects about 16 to 65 feet (5 to 20 meters ...

Observations of Jupiter ... real process associated with fierce lightning storms: strong updrafts generate slushy, ice-coated hailstones of ammonia and water that eventually plunge into the planet ...

It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can leave a noticeable mark in the planet's atmosphere. A recent study tapped into data collected by the Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft Juno and the ...