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

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

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

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 largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter ...

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea and Thebe respectively circle Jupiter at slightly tilted orbits roughly 112 ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

The curious minds at What If wonder if Earth could survive if Jupiter devoured the entire solar system.