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

A groundbreaking study has unveiled a startling portrait of Jupiter‘s early days, revealing the gas giant was once nearly ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

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

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

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

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

Often, when planets form in a protoplanetary disk, they shed orbital angular momentum, exchanging this angular momentum with the disk that they are accreting material from in order to grow.

According to their work, Jupiter's radius was once two to two-and-a-half times its current radius—large enough to contain ...

You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System ...

Scientists provided a detailed look into Jupiter's primordial state and their calculations revealed that Jupiter was ...

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