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

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In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has dramatic weather and structures which scientists are still learning about — including a prevalence of strange objects called mushballs.

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Storm warning on Jupiter. A huge storm on Jupiter broke out in December of 2016, just south of the planet's equator and about 60 degrees east of the famous Great Red Spot.

The planet doesn't have seasons. Something odd is happening in Jupiter's atmosphere, a new study has revealed. Forty years' worth of measurements of Jupiter's atmosphere by spacecraft and ground ...

In 2020, a group of scientists came up with an explanation for strange inconsistencies in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. They suggested that ice-encrusted mushballs rain down during intense ...

Researchers used Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, to take a series of images of Jupiter 10 hours apart, applying four different filters to detect changes in the planet’s atmosphere.

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 heavier ...