Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than the ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...