New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international pair of scientists investigated the physical, ...

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

The planet Jupiter, a gas giant and the king of our Solar System, has just been measured as slightly smaller than what is ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

Combined chemical and hydrodynamic modeling offers a powerful tool beyond Jupiter. Scientists can apply similar techniques to ...

The planets in our solar system grew out of a disk of material that swirled around our Sun. Inner rocky planets formed as tiny grains stuck together ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...