the Juno spacecraft was captured by the gravity field of Jupiter, starting its prime mission—the investigation of the deep interior, the magnetosphere and the atmosphere of the planet.

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 ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured auroras on Jupiter that have hundreds of times more energy than those here on Earth. Jupiter's auroras are like the "Northern Lights, but way bigger!

“What we have always seen as blurred hazes in Jupiter’s atmosphere now appear as crisp features that we can track along with the planet’s fast rotation.” The research team analyzed data ...

NASA’s Juno mission launched in 2011 and arrived at Jupiter five years later in 2016 ... hard to spot as their color blends into the atmosphere of the planet, but at some points the dark ...

The probe launched on March 2, 1972, on an ambitious mission to study the asteroid belt, Jupiter's atmosphere and the outer solar system. About a year and a half after its launch, Pioneer 10 ...

But Saturn and Jupiter were not thought to have suitable ... "It all begins in the upper atmosphere, in the thunderstorm alleys, where lightning turns methane into soot," said Baines.