On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: ...

A planetary smashup billions of years ago may be to blame for Jupiter’s weirdly puffy core. Recent measurements of Jupiter’s gravitational field indicate that, rather than a dense pit of rock and ice, ...

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. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a young Jupiter collided head-on with a planetary embryo 10 times more massive than Earth. This giant impact formed Jupiter's dilute core, which contains hydrogen and ...

Dive deeper into Jupiter’s core, where temperatures soar and pressures reach millions of times Earth’s atmosphere. Explore the layers of rock, ice, and metallic hydrogen, and uncover theories about ...

This simulated view of Jupiter is composed of 4 images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 7, 2000. Jupiter's core may be melting, which could offer an explanation as to why a recently ...

New evidence suggests Europa’s seafloor may be a geologically dead wasteland, lacking the volcanic energy necessary to ...

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 ...

A computer simulation suggests that a massive collision may have caused Jupiter’s core to shatter into a gassy, borderless cloud. ByKatherine J. Wu Thursday, August 15, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next Jupiter ...

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 ...

After eleven months of politics, now it's time for some real "core values" - not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter. Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., ...