With a diameter of 88,846 miles at its equator, Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. It’s eleven times larger than Earth, so big in fact that its gravitational forces are thought to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than ...

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

Looking up into the night sky, it can be difficult to comprehend the vastness of the space that surrounds the Earth – and the impressive size of the various stellar and planetary bodies on display.

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of Jupiter in September 2021. It depicts the planet's colorful, turbulent atmosphere organized by high-speed jet streams into dark belts and light-colored ...