For years, scientists thought Jupiter’s strange interior was the result of a massive collision in its youth. But new research ...

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

One popular explanation for Jupiter's fuzzy core involved a catastrophic collision early in the planet's history. Scientists ...

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

Fifth planet from the Sun, Jupiter is famous for its aggressive storms, but its lesser-known dilute core remains a mystery.

Key Finding: Jupiter’s dilute core -- where heavy elements gradually transition into the planet’s hydrogen- and helium-rich ...

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

Jupiter’s core was believed to be a massive snowball that formed in the cold reaches of the outer solar nebula, the gas and dust cloud from which the solar system formed.

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.

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 ...

This peculiar structure was initially discovered by NASA's Juno spacecraft in 2016. The finding surprised astronomers, who ...