COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of ...

Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic ...

Enormous polygon-shaped cyclone systems at Jupiter’s north and south poles have left scientists baffled over how they maintain their bizarre but beautifully geometric shapes for years. The ...

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the largest known storm in the solar system, is apparently shifting shapes, according to a recent report. A 90-day study, from December to March, of Jupiter using the ...

NASA’s Juno mission captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet on March 7, 2024. They provide a good look at Jupiter’s colorful belts and swirling storms, ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — a vast storm that’s lasted for hundreds of years — is shaped like a pancake floating amid the clouds of the gas giant’s outer atmosphere and doesn’t reach deep into its ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds appears to form the shape of a dolphin gliding ...

An eye-catching pattern on the surface of Europa, an ice-covered moon, may have profound implications for our understanding of the Jovian satellite.

Astronomers have discovered a rare lemon-shaped planet called PSR J2322-2650b orbiting a city-size star. Found using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the Jupiter-size world is stretched by extreme ...

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Scientists have discovered a lemon-shaped planet. You’re seeing an artist’s rendering followed by animation of it orbiting ...