Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower masses, they're more likely to either get flung out of the system or pulled ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. When you purchase ...

A massive, fast-orbiting planet is inching closer to its star, and scientists now have direct evidence of its impending ...

You should, in theory, be able to see the planet parade from your backyard in the night sky. However, city folk will have a ...

Astronomers are watching a giant exoplanet spiral toward its star - offering a rare, real-time look at how planets die.

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth. The breathtaking displays, captured on Christmas Day ...

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets ...

Habitable zones and planet formation When factoring in this super-Earth data, the team calculated that there should be around 0.35 super-Earth planets per star on wide Jupiter -like orbits.

K2-18 b orbits a red dwarf star and is much larger than Earth. It’s known as a sub-Neptune planet, which means it’s rich in ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per ...