Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system by a long shot, ... the core was found to contain an abundance of heavy elements, allowing researchers to draw the planet-eating conclusion.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has unveiled an exciting breakthrough: the discovery of an entirely new type of plasma wave near ...

How that happened is not at all clear, given that we think the only way for a planet like Jupiter to happen is to start with a solid core. It's possible that further Juno data will indicate that a ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now.. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context ...

Jupiter’s moons, of course, have their own appeal. For one thing, there are hundreds of them.Which means phenomena like triple eclipses occur on Jupiter. Galileo spotted the planet’s four ...

"Jupiter was one of the first planets to form in our solar system," in the first few million years after the solar system took shape around 4.5 billion years ago, lead researcher Yamila Miguel, an ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik.

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 is about 11 times wider than Earth alone ...