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 ...

NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...

In this episode, we follow Voyager 2 - the strange, shovel-shaped spacecraft launched in 1977 that pulled off humanity’s only “grand tour” of the outer planets and then kept going into interstellar ...

The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.

February holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. See what's happening in the skies over North Texas this ...

Jupiter has long been described as a swollen, fast-spinning giant, but its exact dimensions have rested on ageing ...

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

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

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

An international team of researchers using data from NASA’s Juno mission has redefined the physical dimensions of the gas ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is slightly smaller and more flattened than scientists once believed, ...

Jupiter, without a doubt, is ⁠the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large – by ...