It’s a conundrum.” ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules—essential building ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

New research suggests that Jupiter’s icy moons may have formed with complex organic molecules already embedded in their building blocks.

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, ...

Jupiter has a new birthday thanks to raindrops preserved in asteroids. These raindrops, known as chondrules, have allowed a team of scientists to accurately date the origin of Jupiter's formation for ...

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international pair of scientists investigated the physical, ...

Recent simulations explore how complex organic molecules may form and be delivered to Europa and Ganymede via Jupiter’s ...

New research using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope examines the maximum sizes of gas giant exoplanets, measuring chemical compositions and formation processes in the HR 8799 system.

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, ...

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