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 trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anticyclonic storm feature larger than Earth — has shrunken to the smallest size ever measured. Astronomers have followed this downsizing since the ...

Jupiter has long been famed for its Great Red Spot—but it wasn't until recently that scientists gained more information on how, and how long ago, it originated. The huge swirl on the side of the solar ...

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 ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot—the biggest windstorm in the solar system—is shrinking, and a new study may help explain why. Located in Jupiter's southern hemisphere, the Great Red Spot is a swirling, ...

The largest and most powerful hurricanes ever recorded on Earth spanned over 1,000 miles across with winds gusting up to around 200 mph. That’s wide enough to stretch across nearly all U.S. states ...

Scientists revealed the latest discoveries on Jupiter, including surprising findings about the planet's Great Red Spot and the cyclonic storms swirling at the poles, in a NASA press conference on ...

For three months, the Hubble Space Telescope stared at the famous blemish on Jupiter. What the veteran spacecraft found surprised NASA scientists. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) is “jiggling like a ...

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the largest known storm in the solar system, is apparently shifting shapes, according to a recent report. A 90-day study, from December to March, of Jupiter using the ...

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