A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.

During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the Jovian moon Io at a distance of about 55,300 miles (89,000 kilometers).

The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic ...

Space weather creates the Northern Lights on Earth, and more recently, aurora lights on Uranus helped NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what ...

In the great tug-of-war between the Sun and its planets, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are much more susceptible to solar activities than scientists thought. Jupiter itself has an interesting reaction ...

Nearly halfway through Canada's election campaign, national unity among the most popular parties means distrust of Donald Trump and distaste for a consumer carbon tax. The economic disruption ...

The search for Earth-like exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our sun—is a central topic in today's planetary research, because extraterrestrial life is most likely to be found there ...