Jupiter’s skies can glow with lights more intense than anything on Earth. Its polar auroras shine when charged particles ...

This surge in heat pushed temperatures beyond 500°C, far exceeding the usual atmospheric background of 350°C ... “Our solar ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

To learn more about the impact of the storm on Jupiter's atmosphere, the researchers obtained data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, the Hubble Space Telescope and from the ...

Scientists say a vast region of unexpectedly high temperatures in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was caused by a massive wave of solar wind.

In the great tug-of-war between the Sun and its planets, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are much more susceptible to solar ...

"The solar wind squished Jupiter's magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else. It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can ...

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

For the first time, NASA's Juno spacecraft has observed powerful solar winds squishing Jupiter's magnetic field, likened to a ...

The discovery stemmed from an unusual temperature pattern scientists observed in Jupiter's atmosphere using the ... higher than the typical atmospheric background temperature of 660 degrees ...