A size comparison of four of the largest aircraft (via Clem Tillier/Wikimedia Commons) Solar system planet size comparison (via Wikimedia Commons) Star size comparison (via Quantrek) ...

An animation posted to Twitter has shocked social media users by showing the impressive size of Jupiter and just how rapidly the solar system's largest planet rotates. The animation posted by ...

This makes CoRoT-7b the only confirmed rocky extrasolar planet, and therefore the largest exoplanet of this composition.

Planet Size Comparison Chart Image credit: NASA/Wendy Stenzel Scientists using NASA’s Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single ...