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

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

Key takeawaysIf a gas giant planet is big enough to ignite deuterium fusion, it becomes a brown dwarf instead of a planet.

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 ...

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

Thanks to new data from the Juno mission to Jupiter, we have discovered that the planet is slightly smaller than previously thought, and more oblate.

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.