Is it raining mushballs on Jupiter? Find out more in this interview with EarthSky’s Will Triggs and the lead author of the new study, Chris Moeckel. Or watch on YouTube. Back when the original ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses into clouds and falls as rain throughout the giant planet's swirled, ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Jupiter also has storms, like the Great Red Spot, that last for centuries. And while ammonia gas and water vapor rise, freeze into droplets, like snow, and rain down continually, there is no solid ...

Just 12 light-years from Earth, the closest known super-Jupiter has thrown a wrench into atmospheric science. New mid-infrared observations of Epsilon Indi Ab, captured by the James Webb Space ...

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Imagine a Slushee TM composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed “mushballs,” raining down like hailstones during a ...