The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
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A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
Overall, the study showed that our solar system fits reasonably well into the team’s peas-in-a-pod category. Some peas-in-a-pod systems also have outer planets like our solar system. Deciding on ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...