According to the Nice model (named for the French town ... much closer together than the planets in our solar system. Some are Jupiter- or Neptune-size worlds that race on insanely hot orbits ...

"Avdellidou specifically finds that the Nice Model itself — the giant ... think of it as a legacy from the early solar system when Jupiter was bullying all around it. The findings were published ...

Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Jupiter and some of the other planets have been repainted, repaired, and reinstalled over the years. The solar system has attracted visitors from far beyond Maine—as it's the largest such model ...

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

Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

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

DALLAS'Like Jupiter, the next giant of the solar ... Dallas shows an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system. Before the 17th century most people believed in a geocentric model of ...