The most recognizable storm in the solar system used to be so big that it could fit three whole Earths. Now, it has room for only one. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, and has been for decades.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half, and in recent years it has turned a deep orange color. Scientists are tracking these changes to see how the iconic spot is ...

Most people recognize Jupiter as the largest known planet in our solar system, but there’s another eccentric quality about the planet that helps it stand out from all the rest. That, my friends, is ...

In a stunning scientific discovery, researchers have found water clouds inside Jupiter's Great Red Spot, raising the prospect that life may exist on the planet. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm that ...

An enhanced image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 probe on July 7, 1979. Another stunning close-up view of Jupiter's trademark storm. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this raw ...

Jupiter is the largest known planet in our solar system, but even that isn’t the gas giant’s most discernible feature – that title belongs to the Great Red Spot, a powerful storm that has been raging ...

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 ...

It's one of the most iconic destinations in the solar system: Jupiter's Great Red Spot, moving around the planet like a wandering eye. But the famous storm is filled with plenty of mysteries. Here's ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been churning for at least 200 years, and probably longer. The Juno spacecraft is studying Jupiter, and its new pictures show that the spot is shrinking. Astronomers don't ...

A new NASA portrait immortalizes the dying storm on Jupiter's surface. The Hubble Space Telescope captures annual snapshots of our solar system's gas-giant planets, and NASA just published the latest ...

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 ...