Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...
Magnetic tornadoes twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere create massive, Earth-sized anticyclonic storms in the planet's atmosphere. These dark ovals, detectable only in ultraviolet light ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is a vast and stormy world. Its atmosphere, primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, is crossed with swirling clouds of ammonia that give the planet ...
And they certainly are amazing. They show that Jupiter’s atmosphere is even more turbulent than thought. New data suggests that the planet’s core is not solid and much larger than originally ...
NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...
Scientists looking closely at this iconic image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found an exciting new feature in the giant planet’s atmosphere. The image, which is taken ...
“We’ve got instruments that will look at the atmosphere of Jupiter and its aurora, so in some ways JUICE will cover a broader spectrum of science—it’s not just for scientists interested in ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...
The university's planetary scientists will use remote sensing from Juice to understand how energy and material flows through the complex atmosphere of Jupiter. Prof Leigh Fletcher, who has been ...