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

“The question is: What happens if you take the surface away? How far do the raindrops fall into the planet? This is what ... explored the deep atmosphere of Jupiter over a limited region of the ...

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

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

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

The asteroid was spotted during Lucy’s latest close encounter. The spacecraft flew just 960 kilometres above its surface on ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly ... reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or "surface" of the planet, which has a radius of 70,000 km.