Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, ...

New Juno data shows Jupiter is smaller and flatter than thought, forcing scientists to update models of the gas giant.

Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

Jupiter is officially “smaller” than it was yesterday. To be clear: the planet itself didn’t physically contract overnight.

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

According to this early data, Jupiter’s equatorial radius was around 44,423 miles (71,492 kilometers), and its polar radius ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

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

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

In the world of modern cruise ships, size really matters! Some of the most iconic passenger vessels of all time continue to be remembered for how they broke records for size and redefined what a ship ...