“At its farthest, YR4 will be near to Jupiter’s orbit,” Binzel said. “YR4 presents a challenge because it is small and headed away. Telescopes on the ground can track it for a few more month ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...

Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot Jupiter TOI-2818b was found to have an unexpected timing variation, hinting ...

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

Jupiter sets around 3:15 a.m. Mars ... The new definition requires that a planet: orbit the sun is large enough to be round has cleared its orbit of other small bodies. Pluto meets the first ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

As of February 2024, Jupiter has 95 moons ... These are objects that orbit their host planet on an elliptical, inclined, or backwards path. They also tend to have been captured by their host ...

Jupiter and Saturn have been locked in a battle ... it pulled a few moderately large moons into its orbit. Over the preceding millennia, those moons have collided from time to time, breaking ...