Jupiter’s atmosphere is a complex system of swirling gases, driven by powerful winds and rapid rotation. The Great Red Spot is influenced by these atmospheric dynamics, which play a crucial role ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

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This phenomenon, confirmed by 3D visualizations of Jupiter's troposphere, suggests that the upper atmosphere's chemical composition does not reflect the planet's interior.

The idea of mushballs was first proposed back in 2020 to explain why—in observations taken by both radio telescopes and NASA's Juno mission—Jupiter's upper atmosphere appeared to be so poorly ...

Jupiter’s striking Great Red Spot has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, they think they know just how old it is and how the cyclone formed in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

WASP-18 b, seen in an artist concept, is a gas giant exoplanet 10 times more massive than Jupiter that orbits its star in just 23 hours. Researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study ...

That’s because storms like those that create mushballs unmix the atmosphere so that the chemical composition of the cloud tops does not necessarily reflect the composition deeper in the atmosphere.