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 ...

One of them is Jupiter. Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall ...

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

A solar wind event in 2017 struck Jupiter’s magnetosphere, generating an expansive hot region that covered half the planet’s ...

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

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close grouping of five planets that year "caused near panic among the citizens of ...

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 ...

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