A new computer model indicates Jupiter’s massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet’s interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report today in the journal Nature.

I remember watching a documentary that described Jupiter as a gas giant. The image that came to my mind was a huge, soft "cotton candy" floating in space. Think about it, cotton candy can be pierced ...

A study suggests that certain global patterns, if observed in Jupiter's near-surface magnetic and gravity fields, could help answer longstanding questions about the planet's interior. Planetary ...

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

"Tidal heating plays an important role in the heating and orbital evolution of celestial bodies," said Alex Hayes, professor of astronomy. "It provides the warmth necessary to form and sustain ...

“Based on the Juno radio occultations, we find that the size of Jupiter is smaller, more oblate, because at the equator, the ...

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what astronomers think and have already begun to decipher its secret. Identified first by ...

According to New Scientist, these findings are based on recent data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, representing the most accurate assessment of this gas giant's size in over 40 years. Unlike Earth, ...

On 27 August 2016, the Juno spacecraft acquired science observations of Jupiter, passing less than 5000 kilometers above the equatorial cloud tops. Images of Jupiter's poles show a chaotic scene, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io – the most volcanically active location in the solar system – Cornell University astronomers have been able to study a ...