"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

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

As the global demand for sustainable energy solutions continues to grow, Lithuanian researchers have taken a step forward by ...

The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...

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

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

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

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...