NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

When a spacecraft slips behind Jupiter, something counterintuitive occurs: when we lose the signal the measurement is then ...

“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 ...

Jupiter is officially “smaller” than it was yesterday. To be clear: the planet itself didn’t physically contract overnight.

“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

According to this early data, Jupiter’s equatorial radius was around 44,423 miles (71,492 kilometers), and its polar radius ...

International scientists led by the Weizmann Institute of Science have conducted an analysis based on measurements from ...

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

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 ...