Alpha Centauri, part of the three-star system closet to our own, is often posed in science fiction as humanity's first hop ...

The confirmation of the gas giant planet would mark a milestone as the closest planet to Earth that orbits in a habitable ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...

Scientists have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet in the nearest star system to our own. At four-and-a-half light ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the ...

Fresh plans for a solar and battery hybrid project, backed by a Japanese gas giant, join EPBC queue, while another PV hybrid project is waved through.

NASA artist's depiction of an extra-solar system crowded with giant planets. Scientists have found that the presence of gas giants in a solar system is likely to prevent life from forming.

While our solar system’s gas giants are far from the sun, the core of a gas giant is likely to be incredibly hot–Jupiter’s is estimated at around 43,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

But not every gas giant is so lucky; some of them should be too close to their parent stars, where their volatile gas atmospheres are boiled away. Here’s what’s left behind.

The differences with our local gas giant—larger radius but smaller mass—are probably a result of the small distance between NGTS-1b and its star, which heats and expands the gas of the planet.