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

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.

Our Solar System's largest planet, Jupiter, was once so huge that it could have held 2,000 Earths, a study has found.

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...

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

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 ...

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

In the search for planets beyond our solar system, many scientists focus on finding worlds that could support life. But ...

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

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

"Similar to how our moon gradually moves away from Earth due to tides ... comparable to its spin now. Knowing Jupiter's early spin also helped them calculate its size. By applying the physics ...