It’s a conundrum.” ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules—essential building ...

Beneath Jupiter’s stormy clouds lies a world scientists have never directly seen, but new simulations are bringing it into focus. Researchers have revealed that the gas giant holds more oxygen and ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't have hard surfaces. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants in our solar ...

Jupiter is old. Like 4.5 billion years old. It started as a swirling disk of gas and dust that formed into a pretty big planetary core. With time, Jupiter’s core grew, attracting more and more rock, ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...