A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...

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

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

Jupiter’s rule of the evening sky is coming to a close. Catch some action there while you can, shortly after sunset this ...

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

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

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

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

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context ...