About 4.6 billion years ago, when Jupiter was still bulking up into the heavyweight of the solar system, it carved a gap in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Jupiter ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

"This brings us closer to understanding how not only Jupiter but the entire solar system took shape," said Konstantin Batygin, planetary science professor at Caltech and lead author of the study, in a ...

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than ...

A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of ...

Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic ...

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, the ...