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 ...

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.

How Jupiter could resemble a ‘Christmas star’ this weekend Astronomers have many theories about the fabled “Star of Bethlehem” mentioned in the Bible ...

Hill used the absorption bands of methane (619 nm) and ammonia (647 nm), both well-known features in Jupiter's visible spectrum, to calculate the abundance of these gases above Jupiter’s cloud tops.

Using the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), European astronomers have detected methane in the atmosphere of WISEA J181006.18−101000.5—the closest T dwarf to Earth. The finding was ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's vast subsurface ocean.

But in the case of methane, it was just discovered on the distant exoplanet named "WASP-80 b," which is what astronomers call a "warm Jupiter." ...

Astronomers have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy in its upper atmosphere. This is an ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

Images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft using three different filters reveal cloud structures and movements at different depths in the atmosphere around Jupiter’s south pole. Cassini… ...

Now, James Webb has detected methane in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The exoplanet in question is WASP-80 b, which is what astronomers call a “warm Jupiter.” ...

Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, with small amounts of ammonia, methane, water vapor and other gases.