A new computer model indicates Jupiter’s massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet’s interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report today in the journal Nature.

For centuries, astronomers have been enchanted by the planet Jupiter, that roiling sea of clouds punctuated by a glowering red eye. But we’ve only had the fuzziest notion of what lies beneath this ...

NASA’s Juno space probe has been circling Jupiter for the past 20 months, and it’s been transmitting scientific data back to Earth at a furious pace. Today, astronomers are releasing four new studies ...

More than 1,000 Earths could fit inside jupiter, but could space rocks ever fill it up? Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library A: Although it would be cool to see space rocks poking out of Jupiter’s deep ...

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and a major component of stars such as the Sun, as well as gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. In recent years, hydrogen’s behavior at ...

This composite image, derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard Nasa's Juno mission to Jupiter, shows the central cyclone at the planet's north pole ...

The luminous auroras on the surface of Jupiter’s explosive moon Io have revealed that the small satellite may not contain an internal magma ocean as previous studies had suggested. A new study using ...

Measurements returned by NASA's Galileo probe into Jupiter have provided dramatic new evidence about circulation processes within the planet's atmosphere and prompted scientists to propose radical new ...

Jupiter’s interior is as intriguing and turbulent as the planet’s surface, unprecedented observations by Nasa’s Juno spacecraft have found. Under the planet’s dazzling surface, there is a swirling ...