As the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else.

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct ...

A new study has revealed that Jupiter—our solar system’s largest planet—was once even more enormous than it is today. In fact ...

It's a dynamic system shaped by gravity and time, and while we've learned a lot, it still holds plenty of mysteries. In this guide, we'll explore how the solar system formed, its structure ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

The same approach employed here using gravity data to assess the lunar interior, the researchers said, could be applied to other bodies in the solar system such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and ...