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 ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

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 ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) of the European Space Agency (ESA) will investigate Jupiter and its icy moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, with the aim to better understand the origin and ...

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