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.

They call it the architect as it played a critical role in shaping the orbital paths of other planets and sculpting the disk ...

During the birth of the solar system, the planets are thought to have formed and grown through a process known as core accretion ... belt between Mars and Jupiter, Vesta is 326 miles (525 ...

Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter itself. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is also ... what actually lies at Jupiter's core. Magnetic field data from the ...

Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system. Saturn is the sixth planet ... Saturn is a gas giant, like Jupiter, with no solid surface. It is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

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

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

that's nothing compared to Jupiter. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that the dancing lights on our solar system's largest planet are hundreds of times ...

which form from magma (which is called lava when it erupts on the surface), aren’t anything special in our solar system. The surfaces of the moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, and even Jupiter’s ...