It's a swirling mass of crimson clouds, more than 8,000 miles wide – large enough to engulf Earth. But the Great Red Spot on the surface of Jupiter is shrinking – and scientists finally may know why.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot seems to be on a cosmic diet, shrinking rapidly before our eyes. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope calculate that the spot, a giant long-lasting storm, is narrowing ...

The Great Red Spot probably formed about 200 years ago and couldn't have been visible with the earliest telescopes, according to new simulations of Jupiter's atmosphere. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is ...

Jupiter is a massive, terrifying planet. Despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the ...

Another "Great Spot" has been found at Jupiter, this one cold and high up. Scientists reported Tuesday that the dark expanse is 24,000 kilometres across and 12,000 kilometres wide. It's in the upper ...

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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 ...

Get a good look while you can: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking, and it might fade into memory within your lifetime. NASA's $1 billion Juno probe took stunning new photos of the tempest on Monday ...

In 1665, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini observed a giant dark spot on Jupiter, which he called the "Permanent Spot." (English scientist Robert Hooke might've discovered it a year earlier, in 1664 ...

Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 190 years and is likely a different spot from the one observed by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, a new study reports. The ...