New York Post
By Ben Cost
Published Feb. 4, 2026, 2:05 p.m. ET
Like a bad Tinder date, Jupiter is not as big as billed.
Scholastic materials across academia will need an overhaul after scientists made the startling discovery that our solar system’s largest planet is smaller and flatter than previously thought.
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of course, but the way we measure it has.”
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