A s the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water ice in a young star amongst the solar systems debris belt.

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

Did you know our solar system might have had an extra planet? Scientists believe a mysterious ninth planet once existed but ...