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

Jupiter and Saturn have always been some of the coolest-looking and intriguing planets to laypeople – and now, scientists are coming through with some new information for us. The data come from ...

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

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

These powerful storms make the planet even more dangerous and impossible to explore on the surface. Intense pressure deep inside Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface because the pressure inside is ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

Imagine giant slushy hailstones made of ammonia and water wrapped in a shell of ice, plunging through Jupiter’s atmosphere in ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else.

With planets and moons, it’s what’s inside that counts. If we want to understand surface ... Saturn’s large moon Titan, Jupiter’s moon Io, and of course Earth, to help us understand how they, and the ...