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 ...

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

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

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

They call it the architect as it played a critical role in shaping the orbital paths of other planets and sculpting the disk of gas and dust from which they formed.

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

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 ...

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

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

Matching Amalthea's and Thebe's tilted orbits with Jupiter's "angular-momentum budget" (the way in which a planet distributes angular momentum throughout its body) allowed the researchers to ...