When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed ...

Want to help scientists discover more about the solar system’s biggest planet? Then become a Jovian Vortex Hunter. Scientists at NASA are asking for the public’s help with identifying different types ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When a rogue meteor careened through the atmosphere of Jupiter last year, it caught the attention ...

A recent study published in Nature examines how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified water vapor in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter located 400 light-years from Earth. This ...

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 ...

There's an intriguing exoplanet out there -- 400 light-years out there -- that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around its ...

A research team led by the University of Minnesota recently launched a project that aims to study cloud vortices on Jupiter’s atmosphere. The team is relying on the general public to contribute ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...