New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Credit: K. Batygin Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, used to be even bigger, according to a new study. The cloud of ...

The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...