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 ...

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

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

One of them is Jupiter. Jupiter is made ... This creates powerful winds that can whip around the planet at more than 300 mph. About 75 miles below the clouds, you reach the limit of human exploration.

20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit ... during which JunoCam acquired around 20 close-up visible color images. JunoCam captured nine plumes from active ...

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 ...