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.

The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the ...

Planet Jupiter, explained And when NASA's Juno spacecraft ... One enduring question is what drives Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and what will happen to it in the future. Then there's the question ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

Webb telescope uncovers fiery, fast-pulsing auroras on Jupiter, reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s magnetic storms.

Scientists use the Webb Telescope to explore Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, searching for exoplanets. Discover how ...

A camera built at Arizona State University is on its way to check for signs of life above Jupiter, but it detoured to Mars ...

The auroras surrounding the north pole of our solar system's largest planet had ... such as green, red, and blue. However, when we use telescopes to see auroras on Jupiter, we only see them ...

The eight planets of the Solar System.’’ EARTH: ‘’Jupiter, the largest and fifth from Sun, With its Great Red Spot it’s gas giant number one.’’ ...

The image on the right shows the planet Jupiter to indicate the location of ... producing colorful waves of red, green, and purple light. Jupiter’s auroras are far more intense and energetic, fueled ...

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