Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

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Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

"Without it, we might not have Earth as we know it."Using computer simulations, Izidoro and his colleagues modeled how ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

When Jupiter was still forming 4.5 billion years ago, something giant likely crashed into the planet and disrupted the process, according to a new study. When Jupiter was still forming 4.5 billion ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new cold "super Jupiter" exoplanet, marking the closest of its kind ever found to us. The new planet, named Eps Ind Ab, orbits a star called Epsilon Indi A, only ...

WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation - describing it as still in the womb - in a ...