Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an impressive 140,000 miles away from the giant gas planet. This video shows the first inside peak of ...

Jupiter is iconic, with its swirls of water and ammonia vapor that characterize its outer surface and its distinctive Giant Red Spot, a gigantic storm raging across its face. But its mysteries ...

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 fit inside. Its Great Red ...

In fact, scientists have found that the haze inside these dark ovals is 50 times thicker than the haze found elsewhere in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Xi Zhang, a planetary scientist at UC Santa Cruz ...

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

It could be the core of a gas world like Jupiter, offering an unprecedented glimpse inside one of these giant planets. Giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn have a solid planetary core beneath a ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

“The goal of the mission is to study places around Jupiter with the possibility for life—because we think there is liquid water inside Europa, Callisto and Ganymede,” said Olivier ...