Some solitary planets wander through interstellar space, offering unexpected surprises about their formation and evolution. Astronomers recently observed a particularly remarkable case in the ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

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Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626. (CREDIT: ESO) Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much ...

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...

New research using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope examines the maximum sizes of gas giant exoplanets, measuring chemical compositions and formation processes in the HR 8799 system.

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't have hard surfaces. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants in our solar ...

At first, the universe was like a hot stew. Instead of carrots and potatoes, it had particles. As the soupy universe cooled, ...