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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Jupiter ...

A University of Iowa-led research team has reported in a new study the most detailed observations to date of the bow shock at ...

According to a new study, our system was once home to a fifth gas giant that suddenly vanished some 4 billion years ago after a run-in with Neptune.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter's early growth shaped Earth's formation by trapping dust, forming rings, and protecting planets from spiraling into the ...

A team of international astronomers reports in the Feb. 15 issue of Science the discovery of a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away with scaled-down versions of Jupiter and Saturn. Their ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...

A planet 100 light-years away that resembles a young Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of astronomers that includes six UCLA scientists. The discovery is reported Aug. 13 in the ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...