Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...

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

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has shared an incredible image of a sprite, a rare weather phenomenon that's triggered high ...

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed ...

Striking images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have revealed unexpected activity deep in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Slushy hail, made of water and ammonia, may form during lightning-packed storms, giving ...

NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. In a newly released picture, a green bolt of lightning was spotted in the middle of a Jupiter storm.

NASA probe launches aboard SpaceX rocket to search for the building blocks of life on Europa, Jupiter's icy ocean moon.

NASA JPL's Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore Jupiter's icy ocean moon.

Lightning often flashes between the clouds of stormy Jupiter’s higher latitudes, especially in the north. NASA’s Juno spacecraft is helping shed light on the gas giant’s wild alien weather.