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 ...

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

Using a giant Chilean desert telescope ... These boulders of ice, dust, and rock are leftover from the early days of planet formation, about 4.6 billion years ago. Astronomers often think of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a discovery that could finally solve the mystery of the Universe s missing ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

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

Scientists have found a planet so strange, it seems to ignore the rules of physics we know! 🌌 This wild discovery, called ...