Jupiter’s interior is a place of unimaginable extremes. From metallic hydrogen to intense pressure, its core remains a mystery. Explore the forces that define this massive world.

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 ...

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 ...

A new study suggests Ganymede—our neighborhood's biggest moon—still has a hot, churning core cranking out its unique magnetic ...

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 new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the formation of Jupiter's remarkable "dilute" core, challenging a theory about the planet's history. Jupiter, ...

More than a decade after its launch, observations from NASA’s Juno probe — which embarked on a four-year extended mission last year — have revealed that the interior of Jupiter is far different than ...

The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. It had been thought that a colossal ...

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 ...