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 ...

In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...

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 ...

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

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

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed ...

Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery ...

The Sun's heat creates just enough stability in the upper atmosphere around Jupiter's equator to inhibit the rise of warm air, preventing lightning-bearing clouds from forming above the planet's ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed ... the atmosphere so that the chemical composition of the cloud tops does not necessarily reflect the composition deeper in ...