A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.
A city-sized green comet, C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), is approaching Earth and will soon be ejected into interstellar space, ...
With Area 51 ruled out by President Obama, where might aliens really be hiding? Scientists have now revealed the best candidates.
Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just gotten a bit smaller, at least according to the latest data. New ...
A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
Towering over California’s Giant Forest, the 2,200-year-old General Sherman tree is the largest on Earth by volume. But how ...
Gas giants are enormous planets made primarily of hydrogen and helium. They may contain dense central cores, but unlike Earth, they do not have solid ...
A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...
Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...
When a tiger meets a bull, strength alone does not decide survival. The outcome shifts with timing, terrain, and instinct, revealing how nature balances power with strategy.