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

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

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Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds.

Gas giant Jupiter is so large it could swallow up over 1,300 Earths and still have some room to spare. If you want that in even more numbers, that would be a diameter at the equator of close to 90,000 ...

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