Scientists spent four years challenging an out-of-the-box theory that ammonia and water form slushy hailstones on the gaseous ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

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

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

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 ...

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 ...

Languages: English. The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and water encased in a hard water ice shell that rain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...