Jupiter’s core mystery deepens as simulations reveal impacts can’t explain its structure. Evidence suggests gas giants form ...

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers. Conventional ...

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 ...

This peculiar structure was initially discovered by NASA's Juno spacecraft in 2016. The finding surprised astronomers, who originally thought gas giants should have more defined core boundaries. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It is still generally accepted that Jupiter formed by smaller objects gradually accumulating, rather than a gas cloud collapsing. Study author Dr Jacob Kegerreis of Imperial College London said, ...