Europe’s first exascale supercomputer—called JUPITER, after a much bigger planet than our own—is near fully operational. It is currently running scientific programs on its formidable processors.

The Webb Telescope found two young planets forming sand clouds in the YSES‑1 system, revealing unprecedented details about ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...

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

NASA is making new discoveries across the solar system, including on Saturn’s moon Titan. Now, the search for life in the ...

Jupiter's atmospheric phenomena, like winds, can reach deep down, to depths of around 2,000 miles into the atmosphere. What we see from the top of the atmosphere is just a fraction of what is ...

An illustration depicting how violent storms on Jupiter — and likely other gas giants — generate mushballs and shallow lightning. The mushballs are created by thunderstorm clouds that form about 40 ...

The 3D visualization showed that, while the majority of the weather systems on Jupiter are shallow, taking place around 6 to 12 miles (10 to 20 kilometers) below the visible cloud deck of the ...

Once they reach altitudes of about 14 miles below the visible cloud layer, ... Citizen science reveals that Jupiter's colorful clouds are not made of ammonia ice. Jan 6, 2025.