Beneath Jupiter's swirling clouds, the planet's internal composition has remained difficult to probe until now. A recent ...

Jupiter and Saturn host some of the strangest weather in the Solar System, and nowhere is that more obvious than at their ...

What processes are responsible for shaping Jupiter and Saturn’s polar weather? This is what a recent study published in the ...

"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets." ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and water encased in a hard water ice shell that rain down like hail here on Earth.

While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid water beneath ...

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 – ...