If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

NASA's very productive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found compelling evidence for a new planet in the Alpha Centauri star system, our closest stellar neighbor. This potential gas giant, ...

What can gas giant exoplanets orbiting far from their star teach scientists about the formation and evolution of gas giants and exoplanetary systems? This is what a recent study published in The ...

What if Jupiter and Saturn collided in space? See the catastrophic cosmic results of two gas giants crashing together.

NASA's SOFIA observatory captured a rare image of a glowing gas ring in Cygnus X — a vast star-forming region 4,500 ...

A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star. Earlier observations of this star, ...

OBJECTS. ASTRONOMERS FROM UNM SAY THEY HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW PLANET, THE GIANT SPHERE IS ABOUT 400 LIGHT YEARS AWAY. INITIAL OBSERVATIONS SAY IT IS ABOUT 25% LARGER THAN JUPITER. THIS HELPS THE ...

JWST has detected rare silane gas in an ancient, oxygen-poor brown dwarf, revealing a key clue to why Jupiter and Saturn hide their silicon.

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and ...