Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

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

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

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

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

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

(Credit: Batygin and Laughlin, ) Jupiter may have swept through the early solar system like a wrecking ball ... caused it to reverse course and migrate outward to its current position. Batygin, who ...

Invisible to the eye, it still marks a star's position ... of the young solar system. Gravity pulled these materials together, and that is where we find gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and the ...

The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets ... It’s 15 big steps from the Sun to Earth, about 75 yards to marble-size Jupiter, and less than a half-mile walk to Pluto, the most ...