When astronomers first discovered other planets, they were completely unlike anything we've ever found in the Solar System. These first…
Checking out the above pictures of a Saturn hurricane, one can't help but wonder: how close was the Cassini spacecraft…
Artist's concept of brown dwarf 2MASSJ22282889-431026 (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The complex weather patterns within the atmosphere of a rapidly-rotating brown dwarf have been…
[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…
[/caption] An exoplanet has been discovered by astronomers that reflects less than one percent of the light it receives from…
The gas (and ice) giant known as Uranus is a fascinating place. The seventh planet from out Sun, Uranus is…