In early November 2024, a photograph purportedly released by NASA and showing a detailed view of Jupiter circulated on social media. "NASA Just Dropped Some of the Sharpest Images of Jupiter to Date," ...

The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter", a planet as massive as Jupiter with an orbital period of just a few ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...

"This brings us closer to understanding how not only Jupiter but the entire solar system took shape," said Konstantin Batygin, planetary science professor at Caltech and lead author of the study, in a ...

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Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...

This artist's concept shows what the gas giant planet that orbits the star Alpha Centauri A could look like. (R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) | NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a ...