As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, a new study published in Nature Astronomy using data from Juno suggests that Jupiter’s atmosphere includes around 0.25% water ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

These beams travel along Jupiter's magnetic field, impacting Io or its atmosphere when on magnetic field lines that have one foot connected to Io. "These spatially variable beams are more ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

They almost 'share' an orbit at an altitude of just under 130,000 kilometres above Jupiter's atmosphere. Within Jupiter's rings, they orbit the planet a few thousand kilometres apart, presumably ...