Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon ... the idea that a large portion of the interior of Saturn has conditions such that hydrogen and helium phase separate," Morales said.

Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon ... the idea that a large portion of the interior of Saturn has conditions such that hydrogen and helium phase separate,” Morales said.

It’s raining on Jupiter ... they fall to the interior. The calculations show that none of the other noble gases are able to dissolve in the helium. But the analogy to rain is imperfect.

On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie "Up." In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California ...

dissolves in the helium raindrops, and together they fall to the interior of Jupiter. Wilson and colleague Burkhard Militzer, an assistant astronomy professor at Berkeley, used computer ...

The interior of Jupiter is just as intriguing as the planet’s dazzling surface, with a swirling mixture of liquid hydrogen and helium at its centre, vast atmospheric jet streams and exotic ...

Hydrogen and helium separate at pressures and temperatures found within the gas giant Jupiter’s marbled exterior is pretty familiar territory, but it’s still not clear what happens far below ...

Jupiter’s interior is as intriguing ... and that its deep interior is comprised of a fluid hydrogen and helium mixture that rotates as if it were a solid body. “The very center may contain ...