As a planet that's over 1,300 times larger than the Earth, Jupiter was dubbed King of the Planets for a reason. Recurring extraordinary phenomena in its atmosphere are also testimonies that it is ...

In a recent groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered new details about Jupiter’s auroras, shedding light on the ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (08/19/2025) — Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing and analyzing the first new type of plasma wave in ...

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say. reading time 3 minutes Since entering ...

A fresh look at Jupiter's powerful auroras with the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed never-before-seen details, and has uncovered a strange mystery for researchers to solve. On Christmas Day in ...

Beautiful ‘dancing’ lights were recently found on Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The lights are similar to the auroras seen on Earth but are “hundreds of times brighter than those ...

Scientists have observed vast auroras on another planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured new ...

Jupiter’s magnetosphere is the largest and most dynamic in the Solar System, a vast region where the planet’s powerful magnetic field governs the behaviour of charged particles. This envelope not only ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground. A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath ...

While Jupiter's Aurora is the brightest in our solar system due to its size and gas-rich atmosphere, our neighboring red planet also exhibits breathtaking, visible-light auroras. While on its mission ...