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 ...

Recent studies reveal Jupiter's clouds are formed from ammonium hydrosulfide mixed with photochemical materials ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That’s still pretty far, though: It’s equivalent to more than 15,260 trips around the equator of Earth. It’s also not quite as close as it could be: In 2022 and 1963, Jupiter came within 367 ...

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.