NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a major first.

New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...

Gas giants are enormous planets made primarily of hydrogen and helium. They may contain dense central cores, but unlike Earth, they do not have solid ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...

Scientists report that the solar system’s biggest planet is slightly slimmer than past estimates, thanks to more precise readings from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Thanks to new data from the Juno mission to Jupiter, we have discovered that the planet is slightly smaller than previously thought, and more oblate.

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This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Jupiter imaged by the Juno spacecraft, with the shadow of the massive moon Ganymede to the left. Data from Juno suggests that ...

Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever ...