Earth just got an upgrade! If we made Earth 1,300 times bigger, we could make Earth the size of Jupiter. A new, super-Earth ...

Jupiter’s immense size and gravity would make humans 11 times heavier, tear apart our Moon into rings and pull asteroids ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

If the hypothetical Taurid resonant swarm does occur, it will make a close flyby of Earth in 2032 and 2036. During those ...

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The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

The Taurid meteor shower, born from Comet Encke, delights skywatchers but may conceal hidden risks. Research led by Mark Boslough examines potential Taurid swarms that could increase impact danger in ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

A Harvard University professor has said that 3I/ATLAS experienced a sudden "nongravitational" acceleration while passing ...