Jupiter is known for its stormy weather, featuring cyclones, anticyclones, large storms, and ammonia-rich plumes that engulf the planet. The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen and ...

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 ...

Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell spoke with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about a new video of an unidentified tic tac object ...

Jupiter is our solar system's largest planet. The researchers believe that the planet's orbit had gradually deteriorated due to its gravitational interaction with the star, and hypothesized about ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals a planet's death plunge into its star, challenging previous theories and shedding light on how giant planets may spiral inward and perish.

Jupiter is our solar system's largest planet. The researchers believe that the planet's orbit had gradually deteriorated due to its gravitational interaction with the star, and hypothesized about ...