The Earth is the only cradle of life we know of. Through its billions of years of existence, it's seen some seriously bad weather, from billions of lightning strikes a year to planet-wide ash and dust ...

Magnetic substorms on Earth disrupt orbiting satellites, including telecommunication satellites and global positioning systems. This mysterious phenomenon has been studied with ESA’s Cluster ...

If you thought the flickering green and red auroras of Earth were spectacular, that's nothing compared to Jupiter. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that the ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

It’s reasonable to think that Jupiter–a gaseous planet more than 11 times the diameter of Earth–would have little in common with our home. But it turns out that the motion of fluids on both planets is ...

Combined chemical and hydrodynamic modeling offers a powerful tool beyond Jupiter. Scientists can apply similar techniques to ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a massive gas giant made mostly of ...

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a struggle for survival. That’s because Earth is now a moon of Jupiter. Why ...

What is the biggest planet in our solar system? Understanding the scale of the planets. The radius of the largest planet in the solar system is over 11 times the equatorial radius of the Earth.

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights (aurora ...