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Farewell to the Jupiter of textbooks—the Juno probe reveals a smaller, flatter planet—and NASA prepares for changes

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...
USA Today

What is the smallest planet in our solar system? Hint: It's not Pluto.

As elementary schoolers, we learned the order of the planets. Maybe your teacher even had a snappy mnemonic like “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas” or “My Very Educated Mother Just ...

NASA's Juno finds Jupiter is a tiny bit smaller than previously thought

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

Newly discovered planet is the size of Earth, but may be covered in volcanoes

In a new study, a team of astrophysicists, including two researchers at CU Boulder, have discovered a small and rocky world orbiting a star far from Earth—similar to our own planet, perhaps, but much ...