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

When a spacecraft slips behind Jupiter, something counterintuitive occurs: when we lose the signal the measurement is then ...

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

“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

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

But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...

Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday, according to NASA. The largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant will be at opposition, meaning Earth is directly between ...

Without Jupiter, primitive Earth might have drifted too close to the sun, rendering it incapable of hosting life, a study from Rice University in Houston reveals. That's one potential interpretation ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights (aurora ...

The curious minds at What If imagine Earth with Jupiter’s massive magnetic field, exploring how such immense magnetism would affect technology, weather, and life itself.