The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been…
I’ve often stated that planets come in a wide range of sizes but rarely do I find myself stating they…
The most widely recognized explanation for planet formation is the accretion theory. It states that small particles in a protoplanetary…
We can't understand what we can't clearly see. That fact plagues scientists who study how planets form. Planet formation happens…
In the 1960s, NASA engineers developed a series of small lifting-body aircraft that could be dropped into the atmosphere of…
A team of researchers has obtained new estimates on the age of Saturn's irregular satellites, which range from 4.1 and…
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…
Can low-mass stars play host to giant, Jupiter-sized planets? Theories of planet formation suggest that it's highly unlikely. But a…
A recent study examined why Jupiter doesn't have highly-visible (and beautiful) rings like Saturn, and puts the blame on its…