The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning new image of the ice giant world Uranus. But what stands…
A couple times a year, the Hubble Space Telescope turns its powerful gaze on the giant planets in the outer…
Exoplanet discovery space hosts all kinds of interesting "super" worlds. There are super-Earths, super-Neptunes, and, of course, Super-Jupiters. Recently, the…
The number of planets discovered beyond our Solar System has grown exponentially in the past twenty years, with 4,919 confirmed…
The search for exoplanets has revealed types of planets that are nothing like the worlds in our own Solar System.…
If you want an iconic picture of the planet Saturn, it doesn’t get any better than this. The latest picture…
The Next Generation Transit Survey recently discovered a hot-Jupiter with the shortest orbital period observed to date, just 18 hours!
New observations by ALMA and the VLT provide the most-detailed look yet at Uranus' system of rings, revealing things about…
Astronomers have debated which objects are gas giants like Jupiter, and which are more correctly called brown dwarfs. A new…