NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays ...

"Jupiter lightning distribution is inside out relative to Earth," Shannon Brown of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and lead author of a paper published Wednesday in Nature, said in a NASA statement.

NASA’s Juno orbiter has observed lightning rolling across the tops of the gas giant Jupiter’s cloud tops. Massive bolts of lightning have previously been detected … ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Lightning storms on Jupiter are much more frequent, and much less alien, than previously ...

During late summer, the U.S. is often hammered by roiling storms and buffeted by icy hail. But on Jupiter, it’s always thunderstorm season. Scientists have known about lightning on the gas giant ...

The thunderstorms rumbling on Jupiter are teaching scientists new things about the largest planet in the solar system. A Nature Communications paper published on May 23, found that lightning ...

Jovian lightning, which occurs as frequently as the phenomenon does on Earth, was first spotted by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft over 40 years ago. Back then, the well-traveled probe picked up faint ...

The JunoCam caught the eerie, green glow of lightning above Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. The view was captured in December 2020, but a citizen scientist processed the image to coax ...

On Jupiter, that region sits between 45 and 65 km (28 and 40 mi) below the visible clouds, which results in bright patches projected onto the cloud tops. But now Juno has spotted a different ...

The JunoCam caught the eerie, green glow of lightning above Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. The view was captured in December 2020, but a citizen scientist processed the image to coax ...