Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – ...

In a first, scientists have discovered a massive wave of solar wind that hit Jupiter and compressed its protective bubble. A solar wind event in 2017 struck Jupiter’s magnetosphere, generating an ...

“There, by one of Nature’s supreme jests, was something very precious to mankind,” Clarke writes. “The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.” We have fallen ...

"Viewing Jupiter never gets old. It is a magnificent planet," astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy said of his sharpest photo yet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Stargazers can expect a spectacular view of Jupiter on Monday evening, as the giant planet will be its closest to Earth in the last six decades. The giant planet will reach ...

Millions of asteroids, not a planet, exist in the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt's total mass is only a small fraction of the Moon's mass. Meteorite analysis suggests the asteroids didn't originate ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Benjamin Roulston is Assistant Professor of Physics, ...

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