Jupiter’s rapidly changing atmosphere plays a key role in such occurrences. With winds reaching speeds of up to 620 kilometers per hour (385 miles per hour), the cloud patterns are in constant flux.

which revealed cyclone swarms gyrating on its surface with roots that likely extend deep below the upper bands of clouds. Though Jupiter has been so intensely examined, many mysteries remain.

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary body in the solar system, and it has tons of ice on its surface as well. For decades. researchers ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a mysterious object that's freely floating through interstellar ...

Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has no solid surface. Instead, its atmosphere becomes gradually hotter and denser as you travel deeper, ...