The curious minds at What If imagine Earth growing as large as Jupiter, revealing changes to gravity, atmosphere, and global ecosystems.
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds. Researchers found the planet likely holds significantly more oxygen than the ...
Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...
According to this early data, Jupiter’s equatorial radius was around 44,423 miles (71,492 kilometers), and its polar radius ...
For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revised that knowledge using new data and ...
When Juno passed behind Jupiter from Earth's perspective, its radio signal traveled through the planet's atmosphere before ...
New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
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 ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...