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

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There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

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 will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital ...

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

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...

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 ...

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

Jupiter is not only the largest in the solar system, but is so humongous that it's more than twice as massive as the other planets combined. The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar ...