Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter’s early growth shaped Earth’s formation by trapping dust, forming rings, and protecting planets from spiraling into the ...

About 484 million miles from Earth, Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, rules the outer orbits. It is so massive that some say it is a solar system in itself. A new study conducted by a ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made a new discovery — directly photographing evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "unconventional" and "intense and ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key chemical precursors to life, could have been incorporated into Jupiter's ...

Calgary, AB – Earth’s Moon was created by an early collision with another large planetary body. It was a “chip off the old block.” Mars captured its asteroidal moons as they passed by. But Jupiter ...

From there, our solar system — and similar ones, as we have observed — underwent a similar evolution: the radiative pressure from the sun pushed lightweight gases like hydrogen and helium outwards to ...