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 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, ...

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, 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 ...

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.

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.

Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, is covered in an icy shell. However, researchers suspect that underneath its frozen crust, Europa hosts a saltwater ocean churning over its rocky mantle.

On Monday, the Town of Jupiter said 60-year-old Darrel Donatto will take on the mantle of Jupiter’s first-ever fire chief on January 29. Donatto has ties to fire departments in Palm Beach County.

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 ...