NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter’s superstorms generate intense lightning, forming a powerful and complex electrical weather system.

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has massive storms that match its size. These storms—some of which can last ...

NASA reveals that Jupiter's size is smaller and flatter than previously thought, changing key models of the current Solar ...

The two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, also have the largest satellite systems, or the most moons.

On Jupiter, a storm doesn’t just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet’s atmosphere is a perpetual engine of turbulence, and somewhere inside those churning cloud bands, lightning is cracking ...

The gas giant is narrower at the equator, but flatter at the poles.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new "hot ...

Since then, astronomers around the world have been studying the planet’s composition through a range of techniques including ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...

It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy ...