A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

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

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

It's hard to measure altitudes in Jupiter's atmosphere, because the planet doesn't have a surface in the usual sense (there's liquid somewhere below all those deep layers of gas, but it's never ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly ... reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or "surface" of the planet, which has a radius of 70,000 km.