The new hypothesis is rooted in dynamic vertical movements within Jupiter’s atmosphere. When giant storms churn up water vapor from deep below the clouds, it rises into colder layers where it ...

In the meantime, Juno is now looping around the planet with the aim of peering beneath the clouds to study Jupiter’s depths, including those beneath the giant red storm. Those two datasets could ...

Cloudy skies on sweltering Jupiter-size worlds ... solving a puzzle that has plagued astronomers for some time. "Our results suggest it's simply clouds hiding the water from prying eyes, and ...

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...

The image captures Jupiter's "chaotic and turbulent" clouds, with swirling formations ... Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. In the data from Juno’s first eight passes by the planet ...

Vivid clouds swirl across Jupiter's skies like colorful brushstrokes across a painting in a new photo from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The image, taken during the spacecraft's 61st close flyby of ...

Jupiter's clouds, which often form into ferocious storms, lend themselves to the effect, NASA said. When NASA shared the image on social media, Wednesday, the space agency likened it to a Cubist ...

The latest batch of photos features swirling, hallucinatory clouds and storms ... cloud groups are also a scientific puzzle. Some of the storms seen on Jupiter have diameters larger than Earth ...

Thanks to a collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers, a new study reveals that Jupiter's clouds are not composed of ammonia ice, as long believed. This breakthrough, published in the ...

Vivid clouds swirl across Jupiter's skies like colorful brushstrokes across a painting in a new photo from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The image, taken during the spacecraft's 61st close flyby of ...