NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter’s superstorms generate intense lightning, forming a powerful and complex electrical weather system.

It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy, a single electrical discharge during a thunderstorm is more than enough ...

Jupiter’s nights are anything but dark. Recent images from a fleet of NASA spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a giant world whose unlit hemisphere crackles with lightning, glows with ...

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Most Americans will look to the skies July 4 to see fireworks. But nervous scientists will hope for a heavenly spectacle of a different sort: the arrival of an enormous spacecraft at Jupiter. NASA’s ...

On Jupiter, a storm doesn’t just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet’s atmosphere is a perpetual engine of turbulence, and somewhere inside those churning cloud bands, lightning is cracking ...