These planets likely grew so large and contained ... In the new research, astronomers simulated a collision between a younger, smaller gas giant and an older, more massive gas giant to see whether ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

Super-Earths, in short, are planets with masses up to 10 times that of our planet, but still less than the masses of gas giant planets. The discovery came after a small extrasolar planet ...

Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have for years sought to understand the gas giant, whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in our solar system combined. Now, thanks to the efforts of ...

one that consists of super-Earths and Neptune-like planets and the other comprising gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn. This discovery opens new doors for planetary system science: Having a better ...