Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – ...

Have you ever wondered how many stars you can see at night? From a perfect dark sky location, free from any light pollution, a person with excellent vision may observe a few thousand stars in the sky ...

Jupiter is a planet of extremes – intense winds, towering cyclones, and magnetic forces that make Earth’s weather look tame. Add to that its volcanic moon, Io, and there’s no shortage of cosmic drama ...

Fluorescent chambers inside South Dakota’s Wind Cave has given scientists a pathway into theorizing how life could exist on one of Jupiter’s moons. In a cool, NASA-funded experiment ...

Have you ever wondered what it would look like drifting through the vastness of space? The Cassini Probe does, looking at Lo and Europa as they orbit Jupiter.

If you have super eagle eyes, there are times when Jupiter looks like it has tiny little appendages on either side of it. These are Jupiter’s four largest moons.

Viewed through a telescope, Jupiter looks like a striped marble. Powerful jet streams blowing upward of 250 miles per hour — nearly twice the speed of winds in a Category 5 hurricane — stretch ...