Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers ...

The Sun is constantly spewing solar wind, a stream of charged particles, into interplanetary space. Occasionally, it bursts ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

How can the solar wind influence Jupiter’s massive magnetic field? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical ...

"The solar wind squished Jupiter's magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...

A solar wind event in 2017 struck Jupiter’s magnetosphere, generating an expansive hot region that covered half the planet’s ...

A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's circumference.

Scientists say a vast, Earth-sized region of unexpectedly high temperatures in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was caused by a massive wave of solar wind.

Jupiter got body-slammed by the solar wind, and scientists have finally caught it in action. A massive solar event compressed ...

Ellipses are defined as curves that surround two focal points. At any point on the ellipse, the sum of the distance to both ...