Astronomers at UC Berkeley have identified mysterious Earth-sized spots at Jupiter’s poles with rapid life cycles.

Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...

Aside from the bright northern and southern lights at the planet's polar regions, the glow from Jupiter's upper atmosphere is weak and is therefore challenging for ground-based telescopes to ...

Astronomers have discovered mysterious, Earth-sized dark spots at Jupiter’s poles that appear and disappear unpredictably.

The dark UV ovals were first spotted by NASA’s Hubble spacecraft in the late 1990s, but have only recently been studied in ...

While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, University of California, Berkeley, ...

Observations between 2015 and 2022 show that these features are more prevalent at the south pole, appearing in 75% of the ...

New research reveals that Jupiter’s magnetic tornadoes generate massive Earth-sized storms, visible only in ultraviolet light ...

Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.