The spot we see today isn’t the same one the Italian astronomer Cassini discovered centuries ago, research shows.

Now, new research is figuring out why the Great Red Spot is shrinking. Revealed in a paper published in the journal Icarus, a series of 3D simulations of the Great Red Spot and Jupiter’s ...

A groundbreaking study combining the efforts of amateur and professional astronomers has redefined our understanding of ...

A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing ...

New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...

9, 2024 — Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises ...

CREDIT: NASA/ESA/Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC)/Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—a rotating storm that is so large it could swallow Earth—isn’t what it used to be. Research has ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the ...

and it wasn’t until 1831 that observations of a storm on Jupiter resurfaced. According to the new research, led by Agustín Sánchez‐Lavega, the storm observed in 1831 is the Great Red Spot we ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simon (GSFC) Music: You Want Dark Tunes? by Ave Air ...

New photos have revealed a pair of gigantic ... The storms are not large enough to stay intact for long periods, like Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, and will instead get pulled apart, Rogers ...