A pair of researchers in astrophysics claim the data sheds new light on Jupiter’s role in shaping the early solar system and ...

Jupiter's early evolution and gravitational influence played a crucial role in shaping the solar system's structure and ...

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...

As the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else.

Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct ...

Before Jupiter became the giant planet it is today, it was much larger and had a much stronger magnetic field, according to a ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...