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

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

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 ...

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

Space is full of surprises but few are as unique as the so-called "cotton candy planets." These young, giant exoplanets have an incredibly low density and are quite light and airy in weight that is ...

These observations allowed the team to divide exoplanets into two groups, one that consists of super-Earths and Neptune-like planets and the ... dominant theory of gas-giant formation is through ...

NASA just pulled off a sky-high feat: One of its massive super-pressure balloons completed ... the charged region of our planet's atmosphere that affects GPS and radio communications, according ...

NASA, GSFC The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool ... up to become a red giant before shrinking down to a core. If the planet had been in its current ...