Astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a young (20 Myr old) transiting exoplanet and found it to be unusually clear and puffy. By analyzing the planet's atmospheric features, they were able ...

Even today, this icy, ringed oddball continues to keep scientists guessing. Uranus spins sideways, so each pole gets blasted ...

Just 39 light-years away, the Trappist-1 system hosts seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a dim red dwarf star,three of which lie within the habitable zone. These alien worlds may harbor the ...

How long would it take to reach Jupiter, Saturn, or Uranus? These distant giants have fascinated astronomers for centuries, but the reality of getting there is more complex than just calculating miles ...

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

Astronomers just caught a celestial sneak peek at how solar systems are born, and it starts with something delightfully small ...

Wadhwa to join as 12th Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in October 2025 Meenakshi Wadhwa will ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii ...

University of California San Diego today announced the appointment of Meenakshi Wadhwa to the position of Vice Chancellor for ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

The trial for the student accused of killing two people and wounding six others in a mass shooting is set to go to trial this ...