In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

When it comes to understanding life in space, you’d think that an astrobiologist’s workload would be focused in, well, space.

In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...

In fact, the life that could be — thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named ... to one of Jupiter's many moons where water is believed to exist beneath an icy surface.

The surface of Saturn also holds small ... is the second-biggest moon in the solar system, after Jupiter's Ganymede. It's also larger than the planet Mercury. Titan is an incredible world wrapped ...

there is a liquid water ocean on a planet’s surface. According to the new work, K2-18b might be a Hycean world: covered with an ocean overlaid by a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. The JWST is designed ...