A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

According to their work, Jupiter's radius was once two to two-and-a-half times its current radius—large enough to contain ...

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

The Republican-majority Senate voted to nullify California's landmark environmental rule that would've banned the sale of new ...

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...

A pair of researchers in astrophysics claim the data sheds new light on Jupiter’s role in shaping the early solar system and ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...