Jupiter's influence on our Solar System dates back to a time when Earth was still just a cloud of dust and gas. Long before ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Dive into Jupiter’s hidden core, its extreme pressure and temperature, and the primordial rocky structure that shaped the ...

Warm Jupiters are rewriting the rules of planet formation - showing eccentric orbits that stay strangely aligned with their stars.

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner solar system. New research from Rice University reveals that Jupiter played a ...

Jupiter and Mars are about to get up close and personal to one another. Look up to the sky early Wednesday morning and you'll see what astronomers call a planetary conjunction. This is what is ...

Jupiter influenced Earth’s future long before Earth formed, slicing gaps in the early solar system to stop its raw materials ...