Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

This allowed for the formation of the gas giants—Jupiter and Saturn—and the ice giants—Uranus and Neptune—which contain ...

When a young star forms, a ring of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk forms around it. Together, the star and the disk ...

Oct. 31, 2023 — Giant gas planets can be agents of chaos, ensuring nothing lives on their Earth-like neighbors around other stars. New studies show, in some planetary systems, the giants tend to ...

Researchers may have discovered the secret ingredient of planet growth, which causes some worlds to grow rapidly in disks of gas and dust ... growth of the outer ice giants being particularly ...

the giant planets are mostly gas (Jupiter and Saturn) or ice (Uranus and Neptune). The fact that they don’t have a solid, visible surface makes it challenging to measure their spin. But it’s ...

But astronomers weren’t sure whether even smaller objects, like giant gas planets, could form the same way. The team of astrophysicists used JWST “to search for the faintest members of a young ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Our solar system has a suite of eight planets—rocky Mars and Earth ...

An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has ...

In our solar system, ice giants like Neptune and Uranus, though less massive overall, contain more metals than the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, which are the largest planets, suggesting there ...