Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

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A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.