Astronomers found a giant planet orbiting one of the smallest stars ever known to host one, challenging everything we thought ...

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that astronomers want to study. Scientists also have their eyes on LHS 3154 b, GJ ...

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Kathi Bischoff spends Memorial Day and many other days remembering her son, Samuel Griffith, who died in Afghanistan in 2011 while serving with the Marines. GOP senator hits Trump tax bill, says ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS ... in size to Saturn and its mass is estimated to be 0.35 Jupiter masses.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million years. Uranus and Neptune were next, within 10 million years.

Astronomers have captured a stellar feast in action — the clearest view yet of a massive baby star devouring gas to fuel its rapid growth. The star, dubbed HW2, lies about 2,300 light-years from ...

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an astonishing rate — equivalent to about two Jupiter masses per year ...

New data from Webb is challenging previous assumptions about Jupiter's auroras, its magnetic field and particle interactions. If you thought the flickering green and red auroras of Earth were ...

On May 15, 2025, the Moon in Sagittarius opposite Jupiter in Gemini casts a cosmic ... It’s like trying to chase a shooting star while your feet stay rooted in the ground. The question is ...