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

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...

In the early days of our solar system, when the Sun was still young and the planets were barely formed, Jupiter wasn’t the ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Their results also add context to planetary formation models developed over decades suggesting that Jupiter and other similar gas planets formed through a process called core accretion in which a ...