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.

The outer layers of the planet are filled with dense clouds of gas ... and impossible to explore on the surface. Intense pressure deep inside Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface because the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Robert Hooke and Giovanni Cassini, two of the leading astronomers in the 1600s, both noted spots on Jupiter’s surface that resemble the modern ... below the storm’s cloud base. But the processes ...

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 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

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

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a mysterious object that's spinning as it floats freely through outer space. According to NASA, the "planetary-mass" object, dubbed SIMP ...

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, ...