Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

NASA's JWST has uncovered solid water ice in a distant star system, reshaping our understanding of life's building blocks and ...

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

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...

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.

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...

According to their work, Jupiter's radius was once two to two-and-a-half times its current radius—large enough to contain ...

Following the much-ballyhooed “planet parade” this winter, the planets have been gradually dipping below the horizon, ...

A Europa Lander prototype was just successfully field tested on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier to simulate the icy conditions of ...

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.

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

Scientists believe such an extreme orbit means the object was pushed and pulled by the gravity of giant planets like Jupiter ...