Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus—will appear in the sky together in a special planet parade on Feb. 28.
Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...
Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science ...
From the surface of Jupiter’s moons the planet would not look like a distant dot in the sky. It would loom overhead filling ...
Why is Jupiter called a ‘failed star’? 🌌 Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how the giant planet formed from star-like material but never gained enough mass to ignite fusion—revealing what truly separates ...
A team of international astronomers has announced the discovery of an 'inside-out' planetary system that defies the established understanding of planetary patterns.