NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere on August 17, 2022, detecting a cluster ...

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

New data shows that lightning strikes inside Jupiter's atmosphere may be more than 500 times as powerful than on Earth.

Lightning on Jupiter may pack more than 100 times the power of Earth's bolts, and may prove one million times stronger, a new ...

Lightning on Jupiter might pack a punch far stronger than anything seen on Earth, up to one million times more powerful. This ...

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 ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday, according to NASA. The largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant will be at opposition, meaning Earth is directly between ...

Storms on Earth can be powerful, but new research suggests they are no match for the extreme forces at work on Jupiter, where ...

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights (aurora ...

The great planetary instability, which saw Jupiter and the other gas giants wander chaotically through the solar system, coincides with the collision that formed Earth's moon. Could the two events be ...

On Jupiter, a storm doesn’t just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet’s atmosphere is a perpetual engine of ...