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 ...

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.

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 ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than expected if a magma ocean were present. Instead, Io’s mantle appears mostly ...

The report outlines a handful of mission concepts which the ... a subsurface ocean beneath its icy surface. The Io Observer would explore a fiery moon of Jupiter to better understand the process ...

Unlike Earth and other rocky planets, Jupiter lacks a solid surface. It’s composed entirely of gas and liquid, making it impossible to land on or walk across. Largest Planet in the Solar System ...

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

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa ... "If we had actual time-lapse footage of a planetary surface changing over millennia, we could ...

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, ...