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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

"We dealt with a series of challenges in this project," said Dr. Bakhit ... Wave Investigation (RPWI) for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE), Space Science Reviews (2024).

Hydrogen and helium separate at pressures and temperatures found within the gas giant Jupiter’s marbled exterior ... She is a two-time winner of the D.C. Science Writers’ Association Newsbrief ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

"We actually orbit Jupiter and every three weeks we fly by into that radiation environment to do the science we want to ... be something there," said Deputy Project Scientist Bonnie Buratti.

Jupiter Power has secured $286m in project financing to fund the construction of two standalone utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the US: Tibbits in Michigan and Tidwell ...