Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just gotten a bit smaller, at least according to the latest data. New ...

Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New ...

The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just got more precise, and it turns out there's slightly less of the giant than ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

The stars may not align, but the planets will. Stargazers are in for a treat later this month when six planets form a line during a rare event scientists are dubbing a “planetary parade.” The ...

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A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.

The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.