Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first discovered in 1665 by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and both scientists and the public have been awe-stricken by its beauty and the processes that created it ...

The brick red, white and brown cloud bands of Jupiter are seen here from Saturn orbit. The Cassini spacecraft’s powerful imaging cameras were specially designed to photograph nearby bodies (cosmically ...

Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini mission and W.M. Keck Observatory were used to ...

The two massive storms were thought to be one and the same, but new research suggests the Great Red Spot formed more recently. Reading time 2 minutes In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini ...

New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather.

Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has swirled within the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated just how old the vortex ...

This map is part of a group release of cylindrical and polar stereographic projections of Jupiter. For the other maps see PIA07783 and PIA07784. (Related thumbnail images available here.) These color ...

WASHINGTON — Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 190 years and is likely a different spot from the one observed by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, a new study ...

In the 1660s, Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini discovered something while looking at the planet Jupiter: a massive spot now known as the planet’s signature. Known as the Great Red Spot or ...

the impact of high energy ultraviolet photons from the sun. The gas cloud extending far out beyond Jupiter’s magnetosphere is thus a mixture of energetic atoms and ions that are flowing away from the ...