New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter may look like a ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

Government investigators are gathering data to confirm what exactly cracked the windshield of a 737 Max aircraft at above ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

Batteries that pair with clean solar and wind energy or just bolster electrical grids in general have completely taken off ...

This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system ...

Warm Jupiters are rewriting the rules of planet formation - showing eccentric orbits that stay strangely aligned with their ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

“Overall, our findings challenge the conventional classification of Uranus and Neptune as ’ice giants’ and underscore the ...