This giant planet formed in a strange way, scientists find
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
Skywatch: Meet the stars of the planetary alignment
Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...
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Water arrived on Earth gradually over time, not in one big event
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
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NASA tracks strange never-before-seen 'waterworld' planet eight times the size of Earth
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been used to shed new light on the exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, which is more than eight times ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
For children: The universe tells the story of Earth, its most special planet
Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...
This 'Roasting Marshmallow' Exoplanet Is So Hot, It's Raining Rubies And Sapphires There
Scientists discovered WASP-121b, an exoplanet where metals rain from the sky. Located 858 light-years away, this 'ultra-hot ...
Astronomers spot asteroid that may be heading for the earth
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...
Asteroid impact on moon blasted two grand canyons in 10 minutes
The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...
Martian lava rocks shed light on critical period of red planet's history
No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...
Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away
The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.