Four and a half billion years ago, Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the ...

Discovering a second hot Jupiter precursor is helping astronomers to confirm the idea that high-mass gas giants transform into hot Jupiters as they migrate from eccentric to circular orbits, the ...

Jupiter's formation disrupted planetesimal orbits, causing high-speed collisions that created molten rock droplets, or ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the ...

Wrong! Jupiter does not orbit around the sun. It is so big, so massive, that it orbits a different center of gravity or barycenter, than all the other planets in our solar system.

Scientists using NASA's Juno spacecraft have discovered a new plasma wave in Jupiter's auroras, offering fresh insight into ...

Jupiter's moons resemble little moons! Do they orbit in a regular pattern, similar to how the Moon orbits the Earth? Today, ...

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to take shape, a pair of astronomers say. Two scientists at Caltech and ...

The recent study suggests that the formation of Jupiter's immense gravitational forces played a pivotal role in creating these chondrules. As Jupiter's mass increased, its gravity disrupted the orbits ...

F or the first time, researchers have dated the formation of Jupiter by studying tiny, bead-like spheres found preserved in ...

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to take shape, a pair of astronomers say. Two scientists at Caltech and ...

The planet orbits its star, TIC 241249530, at a distance about 12% of the distance between between Earth and the sun. That proximity means that it completes an orbit in just 15.2 Earth days.