In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

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.

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct ...

The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...

You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

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

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

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of the rest of ...

Jupiter's early evolution and gravitational influence played a crucial role in shaping the solar system's structure and ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that it could have held ...