The jet stream, spanning half of the planet, can speed up and violently shake the atmosphere’s highest layers as it moves through Tylos’s day-side. “Even the strongest hurricanes in the ...

For the first time, scientists have traced the winds in separate layers of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, uncovering a vertical ...

Jupiter is known for its stormy weather, featuring cyclones, anticyclones, large storms, and ammonia-rich plumes that engulf the planet. The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen and ...

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

Imagine giant slushy hailstones made of ammonia and water wrapped in a shell of ice, plunging through Jupiter’s atmosphere in ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Over time, they noticed that the atmosphere had distinct layers. By the early 1900s, scientists had identified major layers of the atmosphere based on how the temperature changed at different ...