The researchers noted that Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, acts as a natural laboratory to study how the sun affects planets in general. “By watching what happens there, we can better ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

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

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

There are some big objects that exist in isolation ... It’s easy to understand if you think of Jupiter, which as a gas giant planet likely has a similar structure and chemical composition.

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

The largest ... NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like ... was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain.

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

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...

These spectacular lights resemble those seen on Earth, where they're generated when energetic particles interact with our planet's magnetic field, but Jupiter's auroras are believed to proceed ...