About 4.5 billion years ago, a young Jupiter collided head-on with a planetary embryo 10 times more massive than Earth. This giant impact formed Jupiter's dilute core, which contains hydrogen and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, may have been smacked head-on by an embryonic planet 10 times Earth's mass not long after being formed, a monumental crash with ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope, pressed into service before being fully tested after a recent repair mission, has sent back images of an immense scar that suddenly appeared on the surface of Jupiter. Some ...

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Planet-forming disks start out as a mix of dust and gas, but the gas doesn’t stick around for long. As the star at their center ignites, the radiation it emits starts driving off the gas, eventually ...

Stargazers this weekend are in for a treat. Venus and Jupiter have been drawing nearer to each other in the sky all month. Friday and Saturday, after dusk, they will appear to come together and will ...

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A motorcyclist was hospitalized after a collision with a sport utility vehicle Tuesday afternoon in the eastbound lanes of Indiantown Road between Military Trail and Alternate A1A in Jupiter.Palm ...

Jupiter now has 79 moons after 10 more have been confirmed, and according to astronomers, one of them may be on a collision course with other Jupiter moons. Jupiter has been described as a miniature ...