Jupiter’s Galilean moons, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and Io, have long been subjects of intense scientific scrutiny, ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key chemical precursors to life, could have been incorporated into Jupiter's ...

Jupiter is the largest known planet in the entire solar system, and planetary scientists have been debating about how it formed for as long as we can remember. But new research published this week in ...

When did Jupiter’s Galilean moons first contain the ingredients for life? This is what complementary studies published in The ...

When compared to the outermost planets in our solar system, the four planets closest to the sun — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — are quite small. Astronomers believe this is because a massive planet ...

A peculiar class of meteorites has offered scientists new clues about when the planet Jupiter took shape and wandered through the solar system. Scientists have theorized for years now that Jupiter ...

Scientists studying data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft have found that Jupiter’s moon Amalthea is a pile of icy rubble less dense than water. Scientists expected moons closer to the planet to be ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...