Combined chemical and hydrodynamic modeling offers a powerful tool beyond Jupiter. Scientists can apply similar techniques to Uranus, Neptune, and gas rich exoplanets. Such planets remain difficult to ...
New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.
For generations, Jupiter has been shorthand for a straightforward idea: the biggest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant ...
An atmospheric study reveals unexpected findings about our largest neighboring planet and the structure of its deep atmosphere.
Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...
Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly ...
While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor ...
February’s night skies hold a certain celestial splendor that only enthusiastic and vigorous skywatchers have the fortitude and good fortune to enjoy.