Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ...

When it comes to planets, bigger is not always easier to understand. The largest planets in the universe are gas giants—massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium, with no solid surface. In our ...

CALEDONIAN MacBrayne has marked a major anniversary as it celebrates 175 years of serving Scotland. The Gourock -based operator says the milestone marks its long-standing role in connecting ...

Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among ...

NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a ...

The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...

But then again, I almost appreciate Ella McCay for just how spectacularly bad it is. An algorithm could never come up with something this incoherent. Nor could AI. It would probably crash ChatGPT.

Gas giants are enormous planets made primarily of hydrogen and helium. They may contain dense central cores, but unlike Earth, they do not have solid ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

The planets orbit a star around 133 light-years away from Earth.

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

If a gas giant planet is big enough to ignite deuterium fusion, it becomes a brown dwarf instead of a planet. But this definition is incomplete and does not tell us how gas giants form or what ...