NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.

Scientists spent four years challenging an out-of-the-box theory that ammonia and water form slushy hailstones on the gaseous ...

Scientists have discovered that during storms on Jupiter, ice balls containing ammonia and water fall. This unusual ...

Bolton is the lead designer and principal investigator for NASA’s Juno spacecraft ... s magnetic field—which arises from our planet’s core—Jupiter’s is surprisingly uneven between ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

These hailstones, once just a strange theory, are now backed by data from NASA's Juno mission exploring Jupiter and 3D models of the planet's upper atmosphere. Researchers at the University of ...

NASA’S Juno spacecraft capped a five-year journey to Jupiter late Monday with a do-or-die engine burn to sling itself into orbit, setting the stage for a 20-month dance around the biggest planet in ...