When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed ...

A spacecraft en route to Jupiter has captured unprecedented ultraviolet images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, providing ...

A recent study published in Nature examines how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified water vapor in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter located 400 light-years from Earth. This ...

Want to help scientists discover more about the solar system’s biggest planet? Then become a Jovian Vortex Hunter. Scientists at NASA are asking for the public’s help with identifying different types ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When a rogue meteor careened through the atmosphere of Jupiter last year, it caught the attention ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

The atmospheres of alien planets can now be probed even if they are not illuminated by stars directly behind them, astronomers say. A new method used to scan the atmosphere of a distant "hot Jupiter" ...

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 ...

There's an intriguing exoplanet out there -- 400 light-years out there -- that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around its ...

A research team led by the University of Minnesota recently launched a project that aims to study cloud vortices on Jupiter’s atmosphere. The team is relying on the general public to contribute ...

NASA released a photo of Jupiter that shows the planet in a whole new light.Related video above: NASA captures volcanic world of Jupiter's moon IoThis new look at the gas giant is from the Hubble ...