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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter's atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing ...

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