The gas giant is narrower at the equator, but flatter at the poles.

The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just got more precise, and it turns out there's slightly less of the giant than ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has reshaped key ideas about Jupiter. Data collected during the probe’s polar orbits reveal a planet with jet streams plunging thousands of kilometers deep, a lopsided magnetic ...

An image of Jupiter in space, a gas planet with stripes of brown, white, red, and orange - Alones/Shutterstock Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant so massive in scale that ...

For astronomers, technological advances are akin to getting better glasses—there’s often a big jump in resolution. It can make the world considerably clearer and, in the case of astronomy, expose some ...

We are now finding out that Jupiter is not be as big as once thought. New evidence from the Juno orbiter suggests that textbooks need to be revised as the giant is actually a little more squashed (by ...

Data from NASA’s Juno mission has revealed that the solar system’s largest planet is slightly smaller and more “squashed” than previously believed. By analyzing radio occultation data from 13 flybys ...