The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is one of the most iconic features of our Solar System. And your grandkids will likely never see it. It’s a planet sized storm that has been raging for up to 350 years, ...

Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they knew about giant-planet weather. The Great Red Spot, once a planetary icon ...

Jupiter and its moon Ganymede in 2007. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) One of Jupiter's most baffling mysteries might be solved at last. The problem: Jupiter's upper ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has fascinated scientists for hundreds of years. The centuries-old, hurricane-like storm – once three times as large as Earth, but now around half that size – runs on the kind ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths could ...

NASA scientists peering deep inside Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- a storm that has been raging on the planet for over 350 years -- have detected signs of water above the planet's deepest clouds.

According to a new analysis performed by NASA’s Cassini unmanned spacecraft, the big red spot on Jupiter is actually a result of simple chemicals being broken apart by sunlight in the planet’s ...

Astro Bob blog: Warm up Before Monday’s Flyby With These Cool, New Views of Jupiter’s Red Spot In just 3 days, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and shoot the ...

Left: Artistic conception of the longheld astronomical assumption of brown dwarfs resembling Jupiter in appearance, displaying prominent multiple zonal bands and stable vortices similar to the Great ...