Discover how Jupiter's fierce storms create giant ammonia mushballs and solve the mystery behind the planet’s missing ammonia.

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Juno probe show unexplained temperature fluctuations, lightning in regions where it shouldn’t exist, and strange emissions from Jupiter’s ...

A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion ...

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During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were ...

Planetary scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, now say that hailstorms of mushballs accompanied by fierce lightning actually exist on Jupiter. In fact, mushball hailstorms may occur ...

the region where charged particles from Jupiter’s magnetosphere create glowing auroras. Jupiter’s polar regions have been difficult to study from Earth because of the challenging viewing angles. The ...

A marbled sphere, swirled in colors of maroon, rust, and cream. It’s Jupiter, a fellow planet in our solar system, fifth from the sun. “Look at that black speck that kinda looks like dirt on ...

The weather on Jupiter—much like that on Earth—not just by the chaos going on inside the atmosphere but also by external forces including space weather driven by the Sun. In a study published ...

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Jupiter itself has an interesting reaction as it gets pummeled several times a month by solar wind bursts. They compress its magnetosphere and create a huge “hot spot” with temperatures over 500C.