A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Here’s how it works. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from the sun. The gas giant has a long, rich, history of surprising scientists. Named after the kind ...

Scientists have found that the presence of gas giants in a solar system is likely ... rocky planets from developing life. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun, situated around 484 million ...

During this pass, the spacecraft came close to Jupiter's fifth-largest moon ... spotted during a flyby over the south pole of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have spotted a new gas giant exoplanet that formed roughly 160 million ...

In the new research, astronomers simulated a collision between a younger, smaller gas giant and an older, more massive gas giant to see whether the impact generated long-lived seismic waves that ...

The planet, called WD 1856+534 b, is a gas giant exoplanet the size of nearly 14 Jupiters and nearly six times its mass, according to NASA. Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...