Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice ...

Scientists and amateur astronomers have teamed up to upend a long-held assumption that Jupiter's iconic swirling clouds are made of frozen ammonia — a pretty foundational revelation about the ...

Projected variation in ammonia abundance and pressure at the cloud tops near the center of the disk at selected dates in the VLT/MUSE archives. Thanks to a collaboration between amateur and ...

20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter ...

Cruising high above the planet’s massive, swirling cloud tops, Juno shot a photo in December that is really one for the ages. Like a cauldron of milky liquid, this photo of the mighty Jupiter ...

Recent photographs from an amateur astrophotographer have shed light on an intriguing phenomenon on Jupiter ... a region typically defined by brownish cloud bands. John Rogers, from the British ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) have discovered a high-speed jet stream sitting over Jupiter’s equator, above the main cloud decks.

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ...