In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...

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

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

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...

which revealed cyclone swarms gyrating on its surface with roots that likely extend deep below the upper bands of clouds. Though Jupiter has been so intensely examined, many mysteries remain.

Jupiter experiences a unique weather phenomenon where mushballs, ice-encrusted slushballs of ammonia and water, rain down like hailstones.

The 3D picture of Jupiter's troposphere shows that the majority of the weather systems on Jupiter are shallow, reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or "surface" of the ...