"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers think they finally understand its mysterious origins.
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The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...
Then there's the question of what actually lies at Jupiter's core. Magnetic field data from the Juno spacecraft suggest that the planet's core is surprisingly large and seems to be made of a ...
The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the finding of a new study from astronomers at Rice University and China's Sun Yat-sen University, which was published last week in the ...
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas giants developed.
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas giants developed.