Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.

Was it a cosmic jellyfish, a fleeting light trick, or something more outlandish? When NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took a ...

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

Previous reports of water on Jupiter have been conflicting. When the Comet Shoemaker-Levy smashed into Jupiter's surface, it kicked up oxygen that indicated water in the atmosphere might be plentiful.

Jupiter’s atmosphere is a complex system of swirling gases, driven by powerful winds and rapid rotation. The Great Red Spot ...

The atmosphere on Jupiter is radically different from that on Earth. It's primarily made of hydrogen and helium gas with trace amounts of gaseous molecules, like ammonia and water, which are ...

Understanding Jupiter is key to learning more about how our solar system formed, and even about how other solar systems develop. But one critical question has bedeviled astronomers for generations: Is ...

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 ...

A pinch of hydrogen, a dash of water vapor, a touch of ammonia - all combine to make one of many likely scenarios on Jupiter. Scientists on Earth attempt to replicate the gas giant's atmosphere in ...

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.

Their results will help astronomers understand the data that NASA's Juno spacecraft will send back from Jupiter in 2016. On a rooftop in downtown Atlanta, a group of scientists are cooking up ...

Their results will help astronomers understand the data that NASA's Juno spacecraft will send back from Jupiter in 2016. On a rooftop in downtown Atlanta, a group of scientists are cooking up ...