A massive storm has been raging on Jupiter for centuries, and, for the most part, has appeared very serious. A new series of detailed images, however, revealed that the famous red cyclone can get a ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — the biggest windstorm in the solar system — is shrinking, and a new study may help explain why. Located in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, the Great Red Spot is a swirling, ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud ...

Jupiter’s signature feature — its Great Red Spot — might not be the same dark spot seen on the giant planet more than three centuries ago. From 1665 to 1713, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini and ...

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Jaw-dropping new images show Jupiter in eye-popping detail. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured incredible views of the stormy atmosphere of the largest planet in the Solar System on its 66th flyby on ...

The largest and most powerful hurricanes ever recorded on Earth spanned over 1,000 miles across with winds gusting up to around 200 mph. That’s wide enough to stretch across nearly all U.S. states ...

It is the oldest (and largest) known vortex in the solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1665, Italian astronomer ...

Jupiter has long been famed for its Great Red Spot—but it wasn't until recently that scientists gained more information on how, and how long ago, it originated. The huge swirl on the side of the solar ...

Eventually, study co-author University of California, Berkeley undergraduate Troy Tsubota conducted a systematic study of recent Hubble images and found that the ovals were a common feature at the ...