The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths could ...

To explain why ammonia is missing from parts of Jupiter's atmosphere, planetary scientist Tristan Guillot proposed a theory involving violent storms and slushy hailstones called mushballs. In this ...

Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic flux. Deep inside Jupiter, hydrogen is crushed into a strange liquid metal ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Astronomers have discovered a brand new cold "super Jupiter" exoplanet, ...

“Images from a ground-based infra-red telescope, showing Jupiter at 5 micron wavelength radiation. The remarkable change between May 2001 and December 2011 in the North Equatorial Belt (highlighted ...

A team of scientists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has tested a theory created to explain the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere of Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons, and has found ...

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

Hurtling around Jupiter and its 79 moons is the Juno spacecraft, a NASA-funded satellite that sends images from the largest planet in our solar system back to researchers on Earth. These photographs ...

Billions of years ago, what is now our Solar System was nothing more than a vast spinning disk of gas, rock, and dust. Researchers have now discovered that, in the midst of that primitive environment, ...