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

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

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

HOLST'S THE PLANETS at Tulsa Performing Arts Center next month. Performances will take place in November. Learn more here!

HEFEI -- Chinese and international scientists have, for the first time, discovered a solid inner core, with a radius of about 600 km, inside Mars, thereby providing crucial clues to the evolutionary ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Astronomers found the elusive gas on Wolf 1130C but wonder why it’s not more prevalent in other brown dwarfs Schematic of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, composed of the red dwarf star Wolf 1130A, its ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

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