The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why Jupiter is called a “failed star.” Made of star-like material, it lacks the mass to ignite ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard.The space agency spotted the quick-moving object ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Webb Telescope captures TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass planet 50 AU from its star, proving its ability to directly image smaller ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

A new study lends support to the notion that JuMBOs (Jupiter-mass binary objects) discovered by the James Webb Space ...

Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have for years sought to understand the gas giant, whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in our solar system combined.