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Asharq Al Awsat 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 so small an amount - as scientists had previously thought.

A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...