The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

The core is believed to be relatively solid, but the pressures and temperatures are so high that you probably would never reach it. Jupiter, with the shadow of its moon, Io. Source: NASA/JPL ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has issued a warning to Nigerian website owners about a newly discovered security vulnerability in the Jupiter X Core plugin for ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...