Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.

For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode relatively recently as scientists worked on remedying some ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

The Juno mission recently ... Great Red Spot Jupiter NASA Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily. The first images from a nascent NASA mission showcased the spacecraft's ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Scientists spent four years challenging an out-of-the-box theory that ammonia and water form slushy hailstones on the gaseous planet. Looks like it’s true.

The idea of mushballs was initially put forth in 2020 to explain nonuniformities in the distribution of ammonia gas in Jupiter's upper atmosphere that were detected both by NASA's Juno mission and ...

The idea of mushballs was initially put forth in 2020 to explain nonuniformities in the distribution of ammonia gas in ...

A multitude of swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft ... as well as an anticyclonic storm, known as a white oval.