NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter’s superstorms generate intense lightning, forming a powerful and complex electrical weather system.

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Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has massive storms that match its size. These storms—some of which can last ...

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 ...

Jupiter's storms aren't just big, they're packing electrical punches that put Earth's to shame. A new analysis of data from ...

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

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.

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 ...

NASA reveals that Jupiter's size is smaller and flatter than previously thought, changing key models of the current Solar ...

It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy, a single electrical discharge during a thunderstorm is more than enough ...