Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Amateur Astronomer Stumbles Upon Something Strange That Contradicts Previous Models of Jupiter's Atmospheric Composition An amateur astronomer's innovative use of old traditional observation ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...

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 ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

However, this paradigm has been overturned by ... Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice Jan. 6, 2025 — Collaborative work by amateur and professional ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...