Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

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Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

The shocking findings were part of a recent study in which astronomers effectively peered back in time to discover what Jupiter was like ... And it's size is far from the only extreme feature ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2005 b, is about the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star on a highly eccentric orbit. The discovery was reported March 25 on the arXiv pre-print server.

Two scientists at Caltech and the University of Michigan suggest that early Jupiter was at least double its contemporary size. The primitive version of the gas giant could have held some 8,000 ...

But Amalthea and Thebe orbit the planet even closer than Io and have slightly tilted orbits that allowed the astronomers to analyze "small orbital discrepancies" to calculate Jupiter's original size. ...