When Jupiter was young, about 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet with 10 times the mass of Earth crashed head-on into its surface. The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

Newly discovered insights suggest that, akin to ocean waves altering speed as they move, a similar process might be happening deep within Jupiter's core. This could be the power source behind the ...

At over 1,000 times the volume of Earth, Jupiter’s mass is two and a half times that of all other planets combined, making it a cosmic behemoth between Mars and Saturn. Jupiter’s atmosphere ...

The next layer is the mantle, which makes up most of Earth's volume and is composed of dense, semi-solid rock. Then there is the outer core, made of liquid metal, and the inner core, a solid ball ...

But uncertainty about the core’s rotation made it impossible to distinguish between a change in rotation and a change in shape. Now, Vidale and his colleagues have analysed seismic waves ...