NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped in for a close look at a massive thunderstorm on Jupiter, revealing that it may have similarities to storms on Earth ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map the abundance of ammonia in Jupiter's atmosphere, but Hill ultimately ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

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 dividing line between gas giant planets and failed stars is blurry at best. The isolated planetary-mass object SIMP ...

This phenomenon, called pareidolia, is the brain's tendency to recognize familiar patterns. Juno's mission, launched in 2011, aims to study Jupiter's atmosphere, composition, and massive storms, ...

The spacecraft will also explore Jupiter's complex environment and its system (atmosphere, ring system, and magnetic environment) as a model for other gas giants in our solar system—these being ...

Scientists thought this electrically conductive upper part of the moon's atmosphere might imitate ... and the European Space Agency's JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) missions, both already ...

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