Jupiter is the largest known planet in the entire solar system, and planetary scientists have been debating about how it formed for as long as we can remember. But new research published this week in ...

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international pair of scientists investigated the physical, ...

The study examines how Jupiter played a role in the distribution of life-essential elements.

Explore how a cosmic 'planet factory' shaped the Solar System, producing distinct worlds from a dust ring beyond Jupiter.

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...

A peculiar class of meteorites has offered scientists new clues about when the planet Jupiter took shape and wandered through the solar system. Scientists have theorized for years now that Jupiter ...

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

Using insights gleaned from studying exoplanets, astronomers have developed a new theory that explains the formation of all of Jupiter’s Galilean moons. The team, led by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech, ...

Jupiter occupies a volume so vast that every other planet in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, could fit inside it ...