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 mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

NASA’s Juno probe is still out there in space, orbiting Jupiter and sending back incredible images of our solar system's largest planet. For years we’ve known that its surface is a tempestuous ...

Jupiter experiences a unique weather phenomenon where mushballs, ice-encrusted slushballs of ammonia and water, rain down like hailstones.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has made an astonishing discovery about Jupiter's lightning strikes: They're similar to Earth's. Jupiter's lightning is clustered in the polar regions, while Earth ...

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

Image processing by Tanya Oleksuik CC BY NC SA 3.0 A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports. The discovery stemmed from ...

Lightning on Jupiter: Since Voyager 1’s flyby of Jupiter in March 1979, scientists have been puzzled by one aspect of lightning observed in the planet’s atmosphere. For hundreds of years ...

Astronomer Dr Lucie Green takes an audio tour of the universe, revealing a host of hidden noises, from the crackle of lightning on Jupiter to the winds of Titan. Show more The previously silent ...

Powerful lightning storms on the two huge gas giants ... But before you start building a Jupiter- or Saturn-bound diamond-speculating ship with De Beers, keep in mind: All that crushing pressure ...