Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in roughly the same flat plane? This fascinating ...

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

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

Scientists focused on Jupiter's little moons Amalthea and Thebe. Their peculiar orbits didn't quite fit with Jupiter's ...

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

The new calculations, described in a paper published Tuesday (May 20) in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that just 3.8 ...

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 ...

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

Recent calculations suggest that Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet, was once more than double its current size.

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 ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, hides a past very different from its current appearance. A recent study ...