By analyzing methane in the skies of Jupiter and Saturn's moon Titan, scientists are now pinpointing what effects this global warming gas is having on Earth, a new study finds.

Jupiter’s methane-shrouded cousin spotted around distant star This artist’s conception shows the Jupiter-like exoplanet 51 Eridani b, whose hot layers deep in its atmosphere glow through clouds.

Methane, on the other hand, although found in abundance on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, was tricky to spot on exoplanets located so far away, at least by means of space-based spectroscopy.

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

Blue sky thinking: clouds affect how methane heats the Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/magann) Observations of Jupiter and Saturn’s largest moon Titan have been used to boost our understanding of how methane ...

Astronomers have found the smallest planet outside this solar system yet to be directly photographed by a telescope on Earth, a methane-shrouded gas giant much like a young Jupiter.. This newfound ...

The Gemini Planet Imager, which began scanning nearby stars in December 2014 in search of Jupiter-size exoplanets, has discovered and photographed its first planet, a methane-enshrouded gas giant ...

This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit in just 30.5 hours. Its dayside reaches a scorching 3000°C, while the eternal nightside cools down to 1500°C. You would ...

Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, with small amounts of ammonia, methane, water vapor and other gases. These latter components condense at different levels to form ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb telescope has detected methane in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:36:55 GMT (1739972215991) Story Infinite Scroll ...

Jupiter's atmosphere is one of the key science targets for NASA's Juno mission, which began orbiting the planet in 2016. The spacecraft is looking to measure the amount of water in the atmosphere ...

Titan is the largest of the 53 moons that orbit Saturn; in fact, it is the second largest moon in our solar system (only Jupiter’s Ganymede surpasses it). This means that Titan is much bigger ...