Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

"Without it, we might not have Earth as we know it."Using computer simulations, Izidoro and his colleagues modeled how Jupiter's rapid growth in its first few million years affected the swirling disk ...

Jupiter was shaping the fate of our solar system long before Earth came into existence. A new study conducted by scientists ...

Jupiter is not quite as large as astronomers thought, according to the first measurements of its radius taken in more than 40 years. Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like ...

New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...