The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

It has a mass about 13 times that of Jupiter, and is thought to have the structure and chemical composition of a giant gas planet, though its true characteristics have not yet been determined.

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based on current research, which constan ...

Normally, Jupiter's powerful polar auroras inject significant heat into the gas giant's upper atmosphere ... detail over the past decade. These giant planets are not as resistant to the sun's ...

Astronomers are interested in how this tilt affects the atmosphere of Uranus, as well as how the atmosphere works there in ...

The discovery not only reveals a chemical compound essential on Earth for processes including photosynthesis and the carbon cycle, but also indicates that gas giant planets elsewhere in the galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around stars — nurseries that ... disks do not show ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.