Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...
Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show the gas giant is slightly ...
Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...
New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.
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 ...
For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...