Recent studies are changing what we know about the clouds of Jupiter, and the results are surprising. Amateur and professional astronomers have worked together to uncover that these clouds are not ...

Visible appearance of Jupiter and Saturn reconstructed from VLT/MUSE observations on 23 March 2020 and 6 April 2017, respectively. The left-hand column shows the reconstructed colors when no ...

I loved playing with marbles as a kid but never imagined I'd see Jupiter as one. This global image was taken last September during orbit 22 and features numerous storm cells (called vortices) whirling ...

Have you ever wanted to make a discovery in space? A new citizen science project led by a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota allows volunteers to help their team learn more about the ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud ...

NASA’s Juno mission has become a favorite among space fans for its JunoCam instrument which often captures gorgeous images of the beauty of the planet Jupiter and its moons. Earlier this year the ...

An unusually pure cloud of young, fresh ammonia ice has been found on Jupiter by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, the first discrete cloud of ammonia ice ever seen, though the planet is known to contain ...

The first 3D renders from NASA's JunoCam spacecraft have revealed a spectacular phenomenon on Jupiter. The small spacecraft captured data of clouds on the gas giant which, when animated and turned ...

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Scientists found that colorful pigments in Earth’s cloud microbes may help telescopes identify signs of life on distant ...

Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! Right in time for the spookiest holiday of all, NASA is showing off an eerie photo of Jupiter’s noxious clouds — which are scary enough on their own ...

An unusually pure cloud of young, fresh ammonia ice has been found on Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, the first discrete cloud of ammonia ice ever seen, though the planet is known to contain ...