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

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

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

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).

Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The planet, known as K2-18b ... launched in October in what will be a multiyear mission to study the Jovian moon, believed to have a subsurface ocean with as much water as all the oceans of ...

Thanks to your help over the last two years, the Jovian Vortex Hunter project has ... and locations on the planet. For example, your work showed that white and dark vortices are preferentially ...

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point of interest on Jupiter's moon Io. For example, one X u ...

The planet’s large size — with a radius 2.6 ... microbial life under the parched landscapes of Mars or the icy crust of the jovian moon Europa); 2. SETI, experiments designed to detect radio ...

Much like Earth's hailstones, Jovian mushballs grow by accumulating ice layers as storm currents repeatedly cycle them, eventually reaching softball size and falling deep into Jupiter's atmosphere ...