Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...

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 curious minds at What If wonder if Earth could survive if Jupiter devoured the entire solar system. When traveling, it's wise to use your own charging block and plug into a standard electrical ...

The new calculations, described in a paper published Tuesday (May 20) in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that just 3.8 ...

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

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

Our Solar System's largest planet, Jupiter, was once so huge that it could have held 2,000 Earths, a study has found.

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

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

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's influential place in shaping our solar ...