A herd of African elephants instinctively formed an "alert circle" to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo ...

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

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

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...

This phenomenon, reported for the first time, resulted in temperatures exceeding 500°C, significantly higher than the typical ...

The gas giant planet's spots and swirls come from massive storms that whip up prevailing winds as fast as 335 miles an hour at the equator—faster than any known winds on Earth. Jupiter is a ...

One of them is Jupiter. Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall ...

When Jupiter was young, about 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet with 10 times the mass of Earth crashed head-on into its surface. The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the ...

In 2014, images from the Hubble Space Telescope showed the spot to be orange, and roughly the size of Earth. What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has ...