Now, new research from a team of citizen scientists working in conjunction with professional astronomers has challenged the long-held belief that Jupiter's clouds are formed of ammonia ice.

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 ...

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

That’s a whole lot of water, and it’s kept warm by tidal forces generated by its parent, Jupiter. If this sounds familiar, it’s likely because Saturn’s ice-covered moon Enceladus has a ...

It is used to observe Jupiter's atmosphere, the properties of clouds in the lower atmospheric layer, and to study ice, organic matter, and minerals on the surfaces of Jupiter's moons and their outer ...

The researchers calculated that hydrogen and helium would separate about 11,000 kilometers below the cloud tops of Jupiter, down to a depth of about 22,000 kilometers.