NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

Jupiter is our solar system's largest planet. The two brown dwarfs are gravitationally bound and orbit near to each other - as close as just 4% of the distance between Earth and the sun.

On the fiery Io, the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter ... pulls the moon closer to Jupiter, and, at times, pushes it farther away, weakening the planet's gravitational influence.