Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...

Thanks to a collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers, a new study reveals that Jupiter's clouds are not composed of ammonia ice, as long believed. This breakthrough, published in ...

Scientists say a vast region of unexpectedly high temperatures in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was caused by a massive wave of solar wind.

Scientists found that bursts of solar wind—streams of charged particles from the Sun—can slam into Jupiter, squeeze its ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter's clouds as arranged into bands of different latitudes. These bands are produced by air flowing in different ...

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...

Assembled and enhanced from three Voyager 1 negatives, this picture shows Jupiter’s swirling clouds and Great Red Spot. Last July 4, when the Juno spacecraft executed a death-defying dive over ...

(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 ...

One of them is Jupiter. Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall ...

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 ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Previous spacecraft found only a trace amount in Jupiter’s atmosphere, but scientists think they didn’t look deep enough. Juno carries an instrument that can pierce through thick clouds to ...