Astrophysicists recently discovered that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is extremely hot. This new discovery could help explain a mystery that's plagued scientists for decades. Read more about the ...

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

“Interactions with nearby weather systems have been shown to sustain and amplify heat domes, which motivated our hypothesis that similar interactions on Jupiter could sustain the Great Red Spo ...

A panning-view of Jupiter’s upper atmospheric temperatures, 1000 kilometers above the cloud tops. Jupiter is shown on top of a visible image for context. In this snapshot, the auroral region ...

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...

The frictional heat buildup in its interior causes constant and widespread volcanic activity. Scientists think there’s an ocean of magma under its rocky surface. Io, which orbits Jupiter every ...

creating heat and pressure that transforms it into a star. Instead, this happens when an object's mass reaches beyond 80 times that of Jupiter. The enormous amount of mass is why a star can never ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

However, this paradigm has been overturned by ... Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice Jan. 6, 2025 — Collaborative work by amateur and professional ...