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

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Different planets will have different mineral ... they're the only known planet type to contain Basalt, a necessary component of the Voltaic Amplifier. Travelers should exercise caution when ...

Jupiter is so huge that it is twice as massive as all the other planets in the Solar System put together. Jupiter's stripy appearance is caused by winds blowing clouds of different types of ice ...

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

The winner is super-Venus as Webb confirms a new type of planet by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Artist's impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star.

INDIANA, USA — Look up in mid-January just after sunset and you'll see a six-planet alignment: Four with your naked ... (Note: The objects on the magnitude scale show what we can see at different ...

Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun, are likely more numerous than the stars themselves. In the last 30 years over 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered. These worlds come in all ...

and apply our baseline model to a variety of spectral models of different planet types, including Earth twins, Jupiter twins, and warm and cool Jupiters and Neptunes. With our exoplanet spectral ...