From meteor showers to visible nebulas, August is primed to be an action-packed month for stargazers in the United States. ...

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.

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...

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Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to take shape, a pair of astronomers say. Two scientists at Caltech and ...

You can unsubscribe at any time. Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that it could have held 2,000 Earths.

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

Science 'Juno, welcome to Jupiter': NASA spacecraft now orbiting solar system's largest planet After 5 years and 2.8 billion km, solar-powered probe had only 1 shot at tricky manoeuvre ...

The study attempts to answer a question raised in 2011, when scientists realized that our solar system just isn't quite right. It would be much more normal for us to have at least one more planet ...

NASA scientists have referred to Jupiter as “the biggest and baddest planet in the solar system," and here are some numbers to back it up – Jul 5, 2016 ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...