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

Jupiter shrunk not; the yardstick improved. The largest planet of the solar system has been used decades as a sort of calibration beacon: a “known” giant, whose existence largely goes unnoticed, whose ...

Between 7 satellite fly-bys and 2 dedicated missions, you'd think our knowledge about Jupiter would be pretty solid, but we're still learning more.

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

Scientists report that the solar system’s biggest planet is slightly slimmer than past estimates, thanks to more precise readings from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.

“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 ...

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Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...