Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned into the planets we know today. One giant, Jupiter, grew quickly and changed ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins. Recently, researchers uncovered groundbreaking details that shed fresh ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery. Scientists have long debated whether these giants were violently flung ...