"An epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that takes you on a journey ...

Magnetic tornadoes twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere create massive, Earth-sized anticyclonic storms in the planet's atmosphere. These dark ovals, detectable only in ultraviolet light ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an artistic side. This fleeting ...

Revealed in a paper published in the journal Icarus, a series of 3D simulations of the Great Red Spot and Jupiter’s atmosphere included interactions between it and smaller storms. The results ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is a vast and stormy world. Its atmosphere, primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, is crossed with swirling clouds of ammonia that give the planet ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...

However, this paradigm has been overturned by ... Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice Jan. 6, 2025 — Collaborative work by amateur and professional ...