A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Jupiter is known for its stormy weather, featuring cyclones, anticyclones, large storms, and ammonia-rich plumes that engulf the planet. The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen and ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

NASA’s Juno probe is still out there in space, orbiting Jupiter and sending back incredible images of our solar system's largest planet. For years we’ve known that its surface is a tempestuous ...

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings of Saturn. The spacecraft is now 124 times farther from the Sun than we are ...

30 years ago today, the ending of 'Prime Factors' wrote a check that Voyager's episodic nature could rarely cash–but it was still worth writing anyway. Star Trek has always found great strength ...

Voyager 1 detected a small ring around Jupiter and many of Saturn's moons during its flybys. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, providing data about these ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports. The discovery stemmed from an unusual temperature pattern scientists observed ...

On April 10, 2025, an interesting happening will occur in the zodiac as Jupiter, the planet of growth and knowledge, moves from the star of Rohini under the ownership of the Moon to the star of ...