For centuries, astronomers have been enchanted by the planet Jupiter, that roiling sea of clouds punctuated by a glowering red eye. But we’ve only had the fuzziest notion of what lies beneath this ...

A new computer model indicates Jupiter's massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet's interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report. Massive east-west winds in ...

The luminous auroras on the surface of Jupiter’s explosive moon Io have revealed that the small satellite may not contain an internal magma ocean as previous studies had suggested. A new study using ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

NASA’s Juno space probe has been circling Jupiter for the past 20 months, and it’s been transmitting scientific data back to Earth at a furious pace. Today, astronomers are releasing four new studies ...

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and a major component of stars such as the Sun, as well as gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. In recent years, hydrogen’s behavior at ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter's icy moon Europa is thought to be hiding a saltwater ocean beneath its thick outer crust ...

Tremors on Earth have helped scientists probe the interior of the planet, and shakeups on icy moons could do the same. By simulating icequakes on Jupiter’s icy moons Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede, as ...

Measurements returned by NASA's Galileo probe into Jupiter have provided dramatic new evidence about circulation processes within the planet's atmosphere and prompted scientists to propose radical new ...

Since hydrogen is both a highly diffusive and highly reactive element, it is difficult to maintain its stability in high-temperature, high-pressure equipment for use in experimentation, which has ...