The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

The ice giant Neptune - too dim to spot with the naked eye - will be positioned roughly 1 degree to the upper left of Saturn and can be observed using a telescope with an aperture of 8-inches (200 ...

Chinese scientists propose 2033 Neptune orbiter mission Scientists are proposing China’s first ice giant mission, aiming to ...

Astronomers from the University of New Mexico, along with U.S. and international researchers, have confirmed the existence of ...

Helled says that Saturn and Jupiter likely formed via core accretion, but that disk instability may “explain very massive ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

In many of these virtual universes, planets were kicked into orbits between 100 and 10,000 astronomical units (AU) from their stars. That’s up to 250 times farther than Neptune.

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our understanding of how different types of planets form. While dust lingers, ...

We did not expect planets like TOI-6894b to be able to form around stars this low-mass. This discovery will be a cornerstone for understanding the extremes of giant planet formation." ...