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

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

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.

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

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

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 King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

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

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

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

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