The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...

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's early evolution and gravitational influence played a crucial role in shaping the solar system's structure and ...

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

Jupiter is an impressive phenomenon in our solar system. Nevertheless, it has diminished considerably since its early days.

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

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

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Io has since become one of the most fascinating objects in planetary science. Orbiting just ...

Before Jupiter became the giant planet it is today, it was much larger and had a much stronger magnetic field, according to a ...

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.

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

As the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else. To better understand how the newborn giant threw its weight around ...