Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show the gas giant is slightly ...

New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...

Jupiter is officially “smaller” than it was yesterday. To be clear: the planet itself didn’t physically contract overnight.

Jupiter imaged by the Juno spacecraft, with the shadow of the massive moon Ganymede to the left. Data from Juno suggests that ...

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

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about 12 km smaller along the poles, and about 4 km smaller at the equator, than ...

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.

“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 ...

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

"It really shows how much we still have to learn about planets, even in our own solar system." The post There’s Something ...

International scientists led by the Weizmann Institute of Science have conducted an analysis based on measurements from ...