A planetary smashup billions of years ago may be to blame for Jupiter’s weirdly puffy core. Recent measurements of Jupiter’s gravitational field indicate that, rather than a dense pit of rock and ice, ...

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 ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a young Jupiter collided head-on with a planetary embryo 10 times more massive than Earth. This giant impact formed Jupiter's dilute core, which contains hydrogen and ...

This simulated view of Jupiter is composed of 4 images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 7, 2000. Jupiter's core may be melting, which could offer an explanation as to why a recently ...

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 computer simulation suggests that a massive collision may have caused Jupiter’s core to shatter into a gassy, borderless cloud. ByKatherine J. Wu Thursday, August 15, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next Jupiter ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter's deep interior appears to be as strange and otherworldly as the gas giant's ...

When Jupiter formed 4.5 billion years ago, rocks and ice combined to form a rocky core 14-18 times the mass of the Earth, according to a new simulation by UC Berkeley geophysicist Burkhard Militzer.