The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar system, announced the discovery on May 21. At roughly 435 miles wide, 2017 ...

You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System ...

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

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...

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.

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 believe such an extreme orbit means the object was pushed and pulled by the gravity of giant planets like Jupiter ...

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

The new calculations, described in a paper published Tuesday (May 20) in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that just 3.8 ...

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

If you were to ask scientists where life exists beyond Earth, they would correctly tell you that we do not know. There is so much that we do not understand about life on Earth, let alone about where ...