Jupiter, the giant of our solar system, is home to a variety of fascinating phenomena. Among these, the Great Red Spot (GRS) ...

Unlike terrestrial planets, Jupiter’s dense atmosphere hides its inner secrets. Juno’s instruments were designed to peer beneath its cloud layers, revealing the planet’s composition ...

Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere ... but the exact reasons for Jupiter's painted appearance remains unknown. Below the gassy upper layers, the pressure and temperature ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

Hydrogen and helium separate at pressures and temperatures found within the gas giant Jupiter’s marbled exterior ... akin to inner layers of gas giants. “We are reproducing the conditions ...

As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, a new study published in Nature Astronomy using data from Juno suggests that Jupiter’s atmosphere includes around 0.25% water ...

like that of Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. But WASP-121b's atmosphere is not like anything ever seen before. The researchers differentiated three layers by looking for the presence ...

This exoplanet is home to ferocious winds, layers of scorching ... Solar System—including Jupiter’s Red Spot. The discovery of titanium deep in this exoplanet’s atmosphere was quite a ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered atmosphere of one such ultra-hot Jupiter-size exoplanet, revealing powerful winds ...

It is used to observe Jupiter's atmosphere, the properties of clouds in the lower atmospheric layer, and to study ice, organic matter, and minerals on the surfaces of Jupiter's moons and their outer ...