Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

The biggest planet in our solar system is hovering over the North Carolina skyline throughout January, and stargazers will ...

Key takeawaysPlanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar ...

Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter looks like a ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

Scientists have finally worked out where the most common kinds of planets come from. In recent years, the discovery of ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

Ann Arbor is expecting progress towards its sustainability goals in 2026. Advancement on the voter-approved Sustainable ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...