The findings were published March 20 in the journal AGU Advances and were based on data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, ...

L 98-59 d shouldn’t exist. At least, not according to the rules in our old textbooks. Located just 35 light-years away, this ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

Astronomers have directly observed two massive planets forming around the young star WISPIT 2, located 437 light-years away.

There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean worlds and super-Earths with a rocky structure ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

NASA’s planetary science program is still facing a funding shortfall that requires “strategic choices” about which missions ...

Scientists have observed a “rogue planet” that is growing at an alarming rate as it gobbles up six billion tons of gas and dust every second, a new paper revealed. The newly studied object, formally ...

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up some six billion tons of gas and dust each second over a couple of months. A ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...