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.

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

They call it the architect as it played a critical role in shaping the orbital paths of other planets and sculpting the disk ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that it could have held ...

As the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else.

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

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

Jupiter's early evolution and gravitational influence played a crucial role in shaping the solar system's structure and ...

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

Jupiter is an impressive phenomenon in our solar system. Nevertheless, it has diminished considerably since its early days.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...