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 ...

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, ...

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 The Great Red Spot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jupiter's Red Spot is one of the most iconic features of the gas giant and a prevailing point in many of the photos we have of the largest planet within our solar system. But the Red Spot's age ...

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, ...