These storms are thought to contain a kind of water-ammonia hail ('mushballs') specific to Jupiter's atmosphere, which drags the ammonia down into the deep atmosphere and may explain the presence of ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation. Now, scientists have come up with one to explain the strange compositional ...

It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. In a newly released picture, a green bolt of ...

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed in 2020 to ...

Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter may look like a beautiful ball of swirling clouds, but on the inside, it is a gaseous inferno.

Though NASA's Juno spacecraft has probed Jupiter's secrets for nearly two years, the $1 billion mission was set to crash into the planet's clouds in July. Now, however, the agency has confirmed ...

WATERLOO AND CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A one-year-old cat is ready to be a bright light in his new home. Lightning is available for adoption at the Cedar Bend Humane Society. He is a bit bashful in ...