NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to rethink what lies at the center of Jupiter. Instead of the dense, compact ball of rock and ice that textbooks long assumed, new interior ...

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 panning-view of Jupiter’s upper atmospheric temperatures, 1000 kilometers above the cloud tops. Jupiter is shown on top of a visible image for context. In this snapshot, the auroral region (near the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have created a highly detailed computational model of Jupiter's atmosphere to peer below its thick clouds. The enormous ...

Views of Jupiter consistently capture its atmosphere swirling with wild storms, but there's more to find beneath this chaotic scene. The clouds enveloping this gas giant are so dense that they conceal ...

An unexpected ‘heat wave’ of 700 degrees Celsius, extending 130,000 kilometres (10 Earth diameters) in Jupiter’s atmosphere, has been discovered. James O’Donoghue, of the Japanese Aerospace ...