To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

A new study published onarXiv by researchers from UC Berkeley, led by theoretical physicist J.J. Zanazzi, reveals that giant ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings? All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

NASA's Perseverance rover recently captured a photo of green auroras shining in the Martian sky for the first time. The alien ...

Webb is helping scientists understand these gassy exoplanets 'in a way that was not possible prior to the telescope’s launch, ...

This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the ... which are celestial objects heavier than gas giants but not quite stars. These brown dwarfs form what ...

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