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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, Dec. 6, Jupiter will rise in the east around sunset, reach its highest ... the option of using a telescope to see Jupiter’s cloud bands. Additionally, finding a dark spot can ...

This map shows the eastern sky and rising winter constellations on Dec. 16 around 7 p.m. local ... interior may be made of rock, Jupiter is mostly gas and clouds with no solid surface.

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 ...