Jupiter is known for its stormy weather, featuring cyclones, anticyclones, large storms, and ammonia-rich plumes that engulf the planet. The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen and ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Experts spotted a new, young planet with a strange behavior orbiting a dwarf star. It is 10 times bigger than the Earth and ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

Recent discoveries make this connection even stronger. Scientists found that special rocks in the deep sea can make oxygen ...

A collection of objects just 120 light-years away is a truly gob-smacking, one-of-a-kind system. It consists of two brown ...

Mast, R-Fort Pierce, pledged to all three crowds that he would never back cuts to Social Security, while throwing his support ...

An AI algorithm designed to look for planetary systems that could host Earth-like, habitable zone planets, has found 44 ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...