Recent studies are changing what we know about the clouds of Jupiter, and the results are surprising. Amateur and professional astronomers have worked together to uncover that these clouds are not ...

I loved playing with marbles as a kid but never imagined I'd see Jupiter as one. This global image was taken last September during orbit 22 and features numerous storm cells (called vortices) whirling ...

Have you ever wanted to make a discovery in space? A new citizen science project led by a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota allows volunteers to help their team learn more about the ...

Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! Right in time for the spookiest holiday of all, NASA is showing off an eerie photo of Jupiter’s noxious clouds — which are scary enough on their own ...

NASA’s Juno mission has become a favorite among space fans for its JunoCam instrument which often captures gorgeous images of the beauty of the planet Jupiter and its moons. Earlier this year the ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Jupiter’s clouds have deep roots. The multicolored bands that wrap around the planet reach hundreds of kilometers down into the atmosphere, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals, providing ...

Three images of Jupiter show the gas giant in three different types of light — infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The image on the left was taken in infrared by the Near-InfraRed Imager (NIRI) ...

Deep within Jupiter's ammonia clouds, NASA has detected "superbolts" of lightning so powerful a single strike could energize ...

Small, frequent lightning storms zip across Jupiter’s cloud tops. NASA’s Juno spacecraft spotted the flashes for the first time, scientists report August 5 in Nature. “It’s a very exotic thing that ...

Final images from the Gemini Observatory, are the highest-resolution infrared views of Jupiter ever taken from the ground. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab ...

Jupiter’s turbulent beauty comes from its wild atmosphere full of storms, artfully swirling clouds and big bands of color wrapping around the gas giant. But astronomers wanted to understand what’s ...

This image showing the entire disk of Jupiter in infrared light was compiled from a mosaic of nine separate pointings observed by the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLabon 29 ...