But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

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

The Juno observations showed that Jupiter has an equatorial diameter of 88,841 miles (142,976 km), which is about 5 miles (8 ...

“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 ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...

Combined chemical and hydrodynamic modeling offers a powerful tool beyond Jupiter. Scientists can apply similar techniques to ...

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

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

An international team of researchers using data from NASA’s Juno mission has redefined the physical dimensions of the gas ...