The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is a gas giant known for its swirling storms, iconic Great Red Spot, strong magnetic field, and numerous moons. Explore Jupiter’s moon Io, with ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured detailed images of HR 8799’s exoplanets, revealing new insights into their formation, ...

Newly released NASA images show the asteroid as a faint smudge ... how the Trojan asteroids ended up mostly together in front of Jupiter in its orbit of the Sun, and why the Trojans have the ...

flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa," Ben Bradley, Europa Clipper mission planner at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...