Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a single anticyclonic storm observed for more than 300 years, stretches more than two Earth diameters from east to west and plunges roughly 300 miles below the planet’s cloud ...

Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they knew about giant-planet weather. The Great Red Spot, once a planetary icon ...

In the 1660s, Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini discovered something while looking at the planet Jupiter: a massive spot now known as the planet’s signature. Known as the Great Red Spot or ...

Centuries ago, a huge red spot on Jupiter vanished. But years later, a new one was born. Today we know this conspicuous feature as the "Great Red Spot," a swirling storm wider than Earth. Curiously, ...

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 ...

A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed how much the giant storm changed shape as it traveled within the planet’s atmosphere. By Robin George Andrews See more of our ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a large storm that has persisted for at least 190 years. Enhanced Image by Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided Courtesy of NASA / ...

The two massive storms were thought to be one and the same, but new research suggests the Great Red Spot formed more recently. Reading time 2 minutes In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Jupiter has long been famed for its Great Red Spot—but it wasn't until ...

A massive storm has been raging on Jupiter for centuries, and, for the most part, has appeared very serious. A new series of detailed images, however, revealed that the famous red cyclone can get a ...