There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

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

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

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

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

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

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

They call it the architect as it played a critical role in shaping the orbital paths of other planets and sculpting the disk ...

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

It is the largest object in the Solar System, but recent studies suggest it was once even twice as large as it is today.

As the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else. To better understand how the newborn giant threw its weight around ...

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