NASA’s Juno spacecraft – orbiting and closely observing the planet Jupiter – has unexpectedly discovered lightning in the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to a multi-institutional study led by the ...

In this view of a vortex near Jupiter’s north pole, NASA’s Juno mission observed the glow from a bolt of lightning. On Earth, lightning bolts originate from water clouds, and happen most frequently ...

These storms are thought to contain a kind of water-ammonia hail ('mushballs') specific to Jupiter's atmosphere, which drags the ammonia down into the deep atmosphere and may explain the presence of ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation. Now, scientists have come up with one to explain the strange compositional ...

It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. In a newly released picture, a green bolt of ...

Jupiter is known for its massive storms, but trying to peer inside them requires teamwork by the Juno spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Gemini North telescope in Hawaii.

FARGO — Around the world, lightning happens about 3 million times a year, or about 30 times a second. Not all lightning strikes the ground. Lightning can also occur within a cloud or go between clouds ...