New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the ...

A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing ...

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 ...

After about 3 minutes you'll reach the cloud tops 155 miles down. Here, you'll experience the full brunt of Jupiter's rotation ... powerful winds that can whip around the planet at more than ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back another batch of jaw-dropping images from its orbit around Jupiter. Along with the stunning detail in its swirling clouds and colorful bands, the school bus ...

It is located around 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the clouds, in Jupiter's lower stratosphere. Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on Phys.org ...

With a volume more than seven times that of Jupiter and a mass less than one ... likely fueling a constant stream of quartz clouds around the planet. On the planet's night side, with temperatures ...

Juno's mission at Jupiter is up for renewal through July 2021, but it won't last forever. NASA is concerned leaving it in orbit too long could make it crash into and contaminate icy moons like Europa.

The photos show two large white patches sitting side by side in the gas giant's Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) — an enormous dark band of clouds that spins around Jupiter as it rotates.

What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has no solid surface ... through which drops of helium are thought to fall towards the planet's core. Around ...