As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, a new study published in Nature Astronomy using data from Juno suggests that Jupiter’s atmosphere includes around 0.25% water ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Juno's mission, launched in 2011, aims to study Jupiter's atmosphere, composition, and massive storms, providing new insights into the gas giant's mysteries. We've all laid back on a warm day and ...

These beams travel along Jupiter's magnetic field, impacting Io or its atmosphere when on magnetic field lines that have one foot connected to Io. "These spatially variable beams are more ...

Researchers recently used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of this “Super Jupiter,” dubbed SIMP 0136. At roughly 13 times the mass of Jupiter – the largest planet in ...

SIMP 0136, about 13 times Jupiter’s mass, rotates rapidly ... carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide might shift across the atmosphere over time. Future Insights on Exoplanets These findings ...

New observations confirm a dynamic and complex atmosphere with shifting temperatures ... The object, with a mass of approximately 13 times that of Jupiter, is only 20 light-years away in the ...

Hydrogen and helium separate at pressures and temperatures found within the gas giant Jupiter’s marbled exterior is pretty familiar territory, but it’s still not clear what happens far below ...