Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds.

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

Jupiter’s vast, banded clouds have long obscured the true nature of the giant planet beneath, but a new atmospheric model is ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly ...

Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far greater density.

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

Towering clouds ripple across Jupiter's surface in dramatic patterns. Like Earth's clouds, they contain water, but on Jupiter they are far denser and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's depiction of planets forming from a disk of material surrounding a star. Thanks to studies of the compositions and ...