The most recognizable storm in the solar system used to be so big that it could fit three whole Earths. Now, it has room for only one. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, and has been for decades.

Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anticyclonic storm feature larger than Earth — has shrunken to the smallest size ever measured. Astronomers have followed this downsizing since the ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half, and in recent years it has turned a deep orange color. Scientists are tracking these changes to see how the iconic spot is ...

The Great Red Spot isn't just wide — it's deep, too. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's hard to imagine the sheer scale of ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has swirled for hundreds of years, but the source of its distinctive color remains a mystery. New laboratory experiments are working to produce that color — and others found ...

Jupiter is the largest known planet in our solar system, but even that isn’t the gas giant’s most discernible feature – that title belongs to the Great Red Spot, a powerful storm that has been raging ...

Most people recognize Jupiter as the largest known planet in our solar system, but there’s another eccentric quality about the planet that helps it stand out from all the rest. That, my friends, is ...

The iconic Great Red Spot of Jupiter may disappear in the next 20 years, according to a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. The massive storm — larger than Earth itself ...

Data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds Other revelations from the ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been churning for at least 200 years, and probably longer. The Juno spacecraft is studying Jupiter, and its new pictures show that the spot is shrinking. Astronomers don't ...

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A new NASA portrait immortalizes the dying storm on Jupiter's surface. The Hubble Space Telescope captures annual snapshots of our solar system's gas-giant planets, and NASA just published the latest ...