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Scientists spent four years challenging an out-of-the-box theory that ammonia and water form slushy hailstones on the gaseous planet. Looks like it’s true.
NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.
A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...
The solar eruption set Earth's skies ablaze, with vibrant auroras visible across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
"Juno really shows that ammonia is depleted at all ... Earth's atmosphere is mainly nitrogen and oxygen. Jupiter also has storms, like the Great Red Spot, that last for centuries. And while ammonia ...
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
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 ...
Data received from NASA's Juno mission indicates the solar-powered spacecraft went into safe mode twice on April 4 while the ...
NASA's Juno flies above Jupiter's Great Red Spot in this artist's concept.NASA/JPL-Caltech The spacecraft was making its 71st ...
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
The late night/early morning Vladimir Guerrero Jr. extension did not necessarily shake up the baseball world, but it did potentially throw a wrench in the offseason plans of the Boston Red Sox.