Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin influences its shape, atmosphere, and extreme weather patterns, including the ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

What if Jupiter collided directly with Earth? Witness the unimaginable destruction of a planetary collision in real time.

Something incredibly strange is unfolding in our cosmic neighborhood, a powerful and unexplained gravitational force is ...

This extreme expansion poses a serious threat to nearby planets. For example, when the Sun becomes a red giant in about 5 ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...

A new survey of 500,000 stars finds only 0.28% host close-in giants, showing how aging Sun-like stars drag their planets to destruction.

When stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen in their cores, fusion slows and the outer layers balloon outward. The star can ...