New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

NASA announced that a new aspect of Jupiter’s atmosphere has been discovered thanks to the space agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists studying images captured by the telescope in July 2022 ...

Jupiter is famous for its striking, stripey appearance, looking like an orange and white marble covered in streaky, complex patterns. But as a gas giant, Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface made of ...

Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like Earth. But astronomers can still assess its shape by ...

According to New Scientist, these findings are based on recent data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, representing the most accurate assessment of this gas giant's size in over 40 years. Unlike Earth, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission’s 54th close flyby of the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

“This is something that totally surprised us,” said Ricardo Hueso of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, lead author on the paper describing the findings. “What we have always seen ...

For a long time, Jupiter had always been in my mind as that 'gas ball' composed of hydrogen and helium from documentaries. My imagination made me think that any celestial body could easily penetrate ...

The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter just revealed mechanisms driving mammoth storms in the Jovian atmosphere. Storms on Jupiter form ammonia-rich hail — called mushballs — in the atmosphere of the ...

New Earth-based telescope observations show that auroras at Jupiter’s poles are heating the planet’s atmosphere to a greater depth than previously thought — and that it is a rapid response to the ...

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...