The energy to melt the rock in Io's mantle would come from tidal heating in the grip of Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an eccentric orbit, and its distance from the ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

Jupiter now appears 11-percent larger and more than one and a half times brighter than it did back in April 2017, when it at its farthest point from the sun. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...

Jupiter sets record after 12 new moons discovered 00:14. Europa, ... Europa is believed to have a rocky mantle and an iron core. The findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, ...

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life.

JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — The Town of Jupiter's first fire chief is officially on the job. On Monday, Darrel Donatto, 61, took on the mantle as the chief of the Jupiter Fire Department.He will be ...

Not only is it Jupiter’s most massive satellite, it’s the biggest moon in the whole solar system. ... acquire their salt from chemical interactions where liquid water touches a rocky mantle.

NASA JPL's Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore Jupiter's icy ocean moon. NASA to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter ...

The energy to melt the rock in Io's mantle would come from tidal heating in the grip of Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an eccentric orbit, and its distance from the ...