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

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for to two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

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 science. They have reconstructed Jupiter’s physical state at a precise moment ...

Recent calculations suggest that Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet, was once more than double its current size.

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

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

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...

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

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...