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 planet of luck and abundance, fortune and generosity, enters a new zodiac sign, amplifying themes associated ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

AN international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

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

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

This week, stargazers can observe the solar system's largest and smallest planets, Jupiter and Mercury, converging in the ...