If Jupiter doesn’t have a surface, what does it have? How can it hold together? Even as a professor of physics who studies all kinds of unusual phenomena, I realize the concept of a world ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary body in the solar system, and it has tons of ice on its surface as well. For decades. researchers ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

which revealed cyclone swarms gyrating on its surface with roots that likely extend deep below the upper bands of clouds. Though Jupiter has been so intensely examined, many mysteries remain.

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has no solid surface. Instead, its atmosphere becomes gradually hotter and denser as you travel deeper, ...