Jupiter is officially “smaller” than it was yesterday. To be clear: the planet itself didn’t physically contract overnight. There was no cosmic gym session. Instead, thanks to the Juno spacecraft’s ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

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

Solar system’s largest planet remains a brilliant, unwavering beacon, forming a striking trio with Castor and Pollux ...

New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

After 50 years of assumptions, fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter, prompting scientists to rethink what they truly know about the gas giant.

Like a bad Tinder date, Jupiter is not as big as billed. Scholastic materials across academia will need an overhaul after scientists made the startling discovery that our solar system’s largest planet ...

The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...

The great planetary instability, which saw Jupiter and the other gas giants wander chaotically through the solar system, coincides with the collision that formed Earth's moon. Could the two events be ...