A collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers has led to a major discovery about Jupiter's clouds, challenging ...

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 ...

Recently, he demonstrated that the abundance of ammonia and cloud-top pressure in Jupiter's atmosphere could ... can only be conducted by a few groups around the world, this result was difficult ...

Projected variation in ammonia abundance and pressure at the cloud tops near the center of the disk at selected dates in the VLT/MUSE archives. Thanks to a collaboration between amateur and ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back another batch of jaw-dropping images from its orbit around Jupiter. Along with the stunning detail in its swirling clouds and colorful bands, the school bus ...

Scientists and amateur astronomers have teamed up to upend a long-held assumption that Jupiter's iconic swirling clouds are made of frozen ammonia — a pretty foundational revelation about the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

With a volume more than seven times that of Jupiter and a mass less than one ... likely fueling a constant stream of quartz clouds around the planet. On the planet's night side, with temperatures ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has no solid surface ... through which drops of helium are thought to fall towards the planet's core. Around ...