He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

“[The mission designers] knew that if you wanted to understand the formation of the solar system, you needed to compare the composition of Jupiter with that of the sun,” says Bolton.

Jupiter is unlikely to be unique ... The work was funded in part by a Solar System Observations (SSO) award from NASA (80NSSC18K1003).

Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic Shield to Unleash Heat ... one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First ...

Our solar system, in contrast ... there is a large gap (the main belt) between Mars and Jupiter, and the giant planets are also not packed very close together. To sort planetary systems into ...

now say that hailstorms of mushballs accompanied by fierce lightning actually exist on Jupiter. In fact, mushball hailstorms may occur on all gaseous planets in the galaxy, including our solar ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports. The discovery stemmed from an unusual temperature pattern scientists observed ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

However, the new findings challenge that assumption, revealing that even the solar system's largest planet is at the sun's mercy. "We've studied Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus in increasing detail ...