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

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

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

This prototype lander is collecting ice samples here on Earth, in the hope that it might help scientists peek at the ocean ...

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

A study published in Nature Astronomy posits that Jupiter was significantly larger earlier in its history and its more ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

A camera built at Arizona State University is on its way to check for signs of life above Jupiter, but it detoured to Mars ...

Jupiter's stunning auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, as pictured in new images taken by the ...