Jupiter’s famous clouds aren’t ammonia ice but a murky mix of chemicals, sitting lower in the atmosphere than expected. For years, astronomers believed that Jupiter’s upper clouds — responsible for it ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

To get to Jupiter, the Clipper will first fly ... Two spectrometers will study surface chemistry and the composition of the moon's ultra-thin atmosphere, on the lookout for signs of water plumes ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

Io, Europa, and Ganymede offer a fascinating glimpse into the Jupiter system. Continued exploration will unveil more secrets about these eni ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system.' ...

NASA's Juno Probe captured a cloud formation on Jupiter resembling a dolphin, seen by Brian Swift and Sean Doran. This ...

“The asteroid’s composition is consistent with that of carbonaceous asteroids that formed outside of Jupiter’s orbit ... from Earth’s surface, just a tenth of the distance between Earth ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.