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

Lightning on Jupiter might pack a punch far stronger than anything seen on Earth, up to one million times more powerful. This ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere on August 17, 2022, detecting a cluster ...

Researchers have revealed that Jupiter’s upper atmosphere maintains a stable, planet-wide structure that has persisted over ...

Lightning on Jupiter may pack more than 100 times the power of Earth's bolts, and may prove one million times stronger, a new ...

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

New data shows that lightning strikes inside Jupiter's atmosphere may be more than 500 times as powerful than on Earth.

A new study examining microwave radiation data from NASA's Juno mission provides some clues as to why the lightning bolts on ...

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 ...

Storms on Earth can be powerful, but new research suggests they are no match for the extreme forces at work on Jupiter, where ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

On Jupiter, a storm doesn’t just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet’s atmosphere is a perpetual engine of turbulence, and somewhere inside those churning cloud bands, lightning is cracking ...