For a long time, Jupiter had always been in my mind as that 'gas ball' composed of hydrogen and helium from documentaries. My imagination made me think that any celestial body could easily penetrate ...

For years, scientists thought Jupiter’s strange interior was the result of a massive collision in its youth. But new research suggests that the planet’s diffuse, “fuzzy” core wasn’t born from a ...

Berkeley — Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, according to computer calculations by a University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist who simulated ...

New research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of Jupiter's core. Most planetary ...

Jupiter's unusually dilute core may be the result of a catastrophic impact billions of years ago with a protoplanet at least 8x the mass of Earth. By Joel Hruska August 15, 2019 Share on Facebook ...

Among the eight planets in the solar system, Jupiter is definitely the 'big guy'; it weighs more than the other seven ...

Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis research associate professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, studying data from the Galileo probe of Jupiter, proposes ...

I look out at night and see Jupiter and wonder how much we don't know about the solar system's biggest planet. Scientific investigation increases our knowledge of the universe but never reaches an ...

You're holding the edge of a patchwork parachute, waving it up and down while spinning in a circle. No, you're not in elementary school gym class. You're at an Icy Core of Jupiter show. The band, ...