Lightning on Jupiter might pack a punch far stronger than anything seen on Earth, up to one million times more powerful. This ...

Jupiter is famous for its striking, stripey appearance, looking like an orange and white marble covered in streaky, complex patterns. But as a gas giant, Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface made of ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to rethink what lies at the center of Jupiter. Instead of the dense, ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its very long journey to Jupiter. It won’t be until after this decade is ...

Left: Artistic conception of the longheld astronomical assumption of brown dwarfs resembling Jupiter in appearance, displaying prominent multiple zonal bands and stable vortices similar to the Great ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...