A Planet Bigger Than All the Rest
Jupiter is so massive that it holds 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets combined. It is the Solar System’s biggest planet by far, yet it is still only about one-thousandth of the Sun’s mass.Jupiter and the Solar System’s Origin Story
The Giant That Shaped Everything
Jupiter likely formed first, just 1 million years after the Sun and roughly 50 million years before Earth. As it moved inward and then back out, it may have disrupted young worlds and helped clear the way for Earth to form from the rubble.Jupiter and the Solar System’s Origin Story
