With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

"It's astonishing that even after 4.5 billion years, enough clues remain to let us reconstruct Jupiter's physical state at the dawn of its existence," stated Fred C. Adams, professor of physics and ...

Planets with unusually wide orbits may be normal by-products of the formation of planetary systems. This is suggested by new simulations.

A new study published in Nature Astronomy on May 20, 2025, uncovers that Jupiter was once twice its present size ...

Scientists have recently made an exciting disovery about Jupiter, the largest and oldest planet in our Solar System.According ...

Our Solar System's largest planet, Jupiter, was once so huge that it could have held 2,000 Earths, a study has found.

Scientists focused on Jupiter's little moons Amalthea and Thebe. Their peculiar orbits didn't quite fit with Jupiter's ...

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

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 ...

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

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled a startling portrait of Jupiter‘s early days, revealing the gas giant was once nearly ...