Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

The Moon and Jupiter will meet in the southwest sky at around 9.00pm GMT, where Jupiter will be shining bright to the left of ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...

In short, there are now enough nukes on Earth to destroy any number of planets and, though one hasn’t been used in so many decades, don’t count on us when it comes to not, sooner or later, using some ...

It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot Jupiter, ... Stench of a Gas Giant? Nearby Exoplanet Reeks of Rotten Eggs, and That's a Good Thing July 8, 2024 — An ...