Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has swirled within the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated just how old the vortex ...

Data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds Other revelations from the ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first discovered in 1665 by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and both scientists and the public have been awe-stricken by its beauty and the processes that created it ...

Image: These are two views of Jupiter’s Little Red Spot taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in April 2006. The left image is a close-up view. In the right image, a box has been added to show the ...

WASHINGTON — Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 190 years and is likely a different spot from the one observed by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, a new study ...

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In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed a massive storm raging on Jupiter. It became known as the Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds that’s almost twice as wide as Earth. New ...

Jupiter's Red Spot is one of the most iconic features of the gas giant and a prevailing point in many of the photos we have of the largest planet within our solar system. But the Red Spot's age ...

Jupiter and its moon Ganymede in 2007. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) One of Jupiter's most baffling mysteries might be solved at last. The problem: Jupiter's upper ...

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