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NASA's Juno spacecraft flew above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and discovered that the vortex churns up to 310 miles deep
Jupiter's iconic storm is taller than the distance between Earth ant the space station. The jet str…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected mysterious changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The winds are changing inside Jupiter's biggest storm, and scientist aren't sure what it means. But…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers just stitched together an unprecedented portrait of Jupiter in infrared — and realized its Great Red Spot is full of holes
Astronomers created a "weather satellite" by linking a Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft, NASA's Hubble S…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New images reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its smaller counterpart, Red Spot Jr., in stunning detail
Two telescopes worked together to capture jaw-dropping images of Jupiter through different types of…
Aylin Woodward
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is colored red by a powerful force beyond the solar system
NASA researchers recently performed an experiment to find out. The team proposed that copious amoun…
Rebecca Harrington
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may die within your lifetime
"They don't, at least not all of them," Orton told Business Insider in an email. "Think of the GRS …
Dave Mosher
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NASA will fly closer to Jupiter's Great Red Spot tonight than ever before - here's what it could see
NASA's Juno probe won't fly endlessly around the gas giant. The space agency expects to destroy Jun…
Dave Mosher
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may have only 10 to 20 years left before it dies
"They don't, at least not all of them," Orton said in an email. "Think of the GRS [Great Red Spot] …
Dave Mosher
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Hubble Snapped This Picture Of Jupiter With A Creepy 'Hole' In Its Great Red Spot
This image might not have been possible 200 years ago, even if the technology had been around to se…
Jessica Orwig
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A new NASA portrait of Jupiter reveals its disappearing Great Red Spot in unprecedented color
"If the trends we see in the Great Red Spot continue, the next five to 10 years could be very inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This incredible NASA animation shows what it's like to fly into Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The most famous storm in the solar system is also one of the largest: Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The…
Rob Ludacer,Rob Ludacer,Jessi…
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NASA will soon take the closest-ever photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot - a storm the size of 2 Earths
Juno's orbit around Jupiter is elliptical, so only swings by the planet once every 53.5 days. (NAS…
Dave Mosher
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NASA is about to fly over Jupiter's biggest storm for the first time - here's what the photos might look like
NASA's Juno probe won't fly endlessly around the gas giant. The space agency expects to destroy Jun…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back breathtaking new images of the Great Red Spot
Juno took the new photos on it's seventh pass around the gas giant planet. The spacecraft swings by…
Dave Mosher,Dana Varinsky
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Scientists are floored by NASA's new photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot - here's what they see in the images
"I'm counting the times [I've picked] up my jaw in the last couple of days," Glenn Orton, a lead Ju…
Dave Mosher,Dana Varinsky
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures photos of dark red storms raging in Jupiter's Northern hemisphere
New photos of Jupiter taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will help scientists to track and bett…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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Scalding hot temperatures above the solar system's largest storm might solve a longstanding mystery about Jupiter
"A good analogy for this is it's pretty much like stirring a cup of coffee with a spoon," O'Donoghu…