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

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

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 ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.

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

This flattened map of Jupiter reveals the distribution of ammonia beneath the planet’s cloud tops, extending tens of miles below the visible cloud deck. Red regions indicate where ammonia is depleted, ...

Instead, however, Jupiter's upper reaches had been creating a misleading impression. "The turbulent cloud tops would lead you to believe that the atmosphere is well mixed," said Moeckel ...

Imagine a Slushee™ composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed "mushballs ...

Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery ...