The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

Last July 4, when the Juno spacecraft executed a death-defying dive over Jupiter’s north pole and plunged through the planet’s searing ... of annual exposure to background radiation on Earth ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed ... the planet," the team wrote in their paper, which was published April 3 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. As "there are no known heating ...

In a first, scientists have discovered a massive wave of solar wind that hit Jupiter and ... across the planet,” the team said in their paper. As “there are no known heating mechanisms capable ...

"Imke and I both were like, 'There's no way in ... systems on Jupiter are shallow, reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or "surface" of the planet, which has a radius ...

It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can leave a noticeable mark in the planet's atmosphere. A recent study tapped into data collected by the Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft Juno and the ...

In their study published in Science Advances, Chris Moeckel, Imke de Pater, and Huazhi Ge analyzed data from multiple sources focused on a major storm that occurred on Jupiter starting in 2016.

As a gas giant, Jupiter has no solid surface. Instead, its atmosphere becomes gradually hotter and denser as you travel deeper, compressing the hydrogen and helium into strange states of matter. Most ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter ... planet," the team wrote in their paper, which was published today (April 3) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. As "there are no ...