Jupiter is known for its stormy weather, featuring cyclones, anticyclones, large storms, and ammonia-rich plumes that engulf the planet. The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen and ...

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

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

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform ...

Explore the surprising and potentially explosive results of attempting to light a match on the gas giant Jupiter.

The Norwegian company Equinor plans to erect 54 1,000-foot wind turbines, starting around 15 miles from the shore.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations.

The James Webb Space Telescope observed hot gas forming a ring around the star and an expanding cloud of cooler dust, evidence of the aftermath.

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Last July 4, when the Juno spacecraft executed a death-defying dive over Jupiter’s north pole and plunged through the planet’s searing radiation belts to begin orbiting the gas giant ...