New research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of Jupiter's core. Most planetary scientists thought that a colossal collision with an early planet containing half ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. It had been thought that a colossal ...

Long written off in school textbooks as a passive celestial giant marked by a centuries-old storm, Jupiter is emerging ...

A new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the formation of Jupiter's remarkable ‘dilute’ core, challenging a theory about the planet's history. Jupiter, ...

A new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the formation of Jupiter's remarkable "dilute" core, challenging a theory about the planet's history. 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 ...

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