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

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 ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins. Recently, researchers uncovered groundbreaking details that shed fresh ...

The solar system's dynamical state can be explained by an orbital instability among the giant planets. A recent model has proposed ... and encounters with small bodies that dissipate angular momentum ...

Abstract: We consider the potential for generating photon pars with high-dimensional entanglement in their orbital angular momentum through multiple simultaneous four-wave-mixing processes. We study a ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

Video from the U.S. Geological Survey showed Kilauea volcano spewing lava more than 800 feet into the air in its latest eruption on Hawaii's Big Island. USGS said the eruption began around 4:15 p.m.

A research team led by Associate Prof. Wang Anting from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Scientists suggest a star and its planet are orbiting a second star in two opposite directions in an exotic binary star ...

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