Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The University of Arizona has utilized state-of-the-art Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme technology to observe the PDS 70 ...