For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just took a ...

Astronomers have found that planet mass is about 17% of the mass of Jupiter, or about 53 times the mass of the Earth. The ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it.

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

The tiny pebbles left over from a star's formation fed the growth of one of the strangest, wildest worlds humanity has ever ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy on May 20, 2025, uncovers that Jupiter was once twice its present size ...

Scientists focused on Jupiter's little moons Amalthea and Thebe. Their peculiar orbits didn't quite fit with Jupiter's ...

You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System ...