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 last ...

A panning-view of Jupiter’s upper atmospheric temperatures, 1000 kilometers above the cloud tops. Jupiter is shown on top of a visible image for context. In this snapshot, the auroral region (near the ...

Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly ...

Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds. Researchers found the planet likely holds significantly more oxygen than the ...

Views of Jupiter consistently capture its atmosphere swirling with wild storms, but there's more to find beneath this chaotic scene. The clouds enveloping this gas giant are so dense that they conceal ...