Scientists captured the true scale of storms beyond Earth

From Jupiter’s centuries-old Great Red Spot to Saturn’s planet-wide tempests and Neptune’s supersonic winds, storms across the Solar System operate on a scale that dwarfs anything on Earth. Spacecraft observations have revealed lightning thousands of times stronger than terrestrial strikes and atmospheric systems large enough to swallow entire planets. These extreme weather systems challenge what scientists thought they knew about planetary atmospheres. The deeper researchers look, the clearer it becomes that space weather can be far more violent than expected.