Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

"Jupiter didn't just become the biggest planet — it set the architecture for the whole inner solar system." Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...