We humans might grow larger as we move from early life to adulthood, but Jupiter has done the opposite. New research offers a ...

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

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 ...

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

A pair of researchers in astrophysics claim the data sheds new light on Jupiter’s role in shaping the early solar system and ...

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.

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

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

Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...