A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

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

It is the largest object in the Solar System, but recent studies suggest it was once twice as large as it is today.

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

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around them is evolving.

These techniques reduce distortions and sharpen clarity, boosting astronomers' ability to map out the planet formation process with greater precision by revealing finer structures within the ...

The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system. Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system. Known for its stunning rings, Saturn is a gas ...

Clues that pointed astronomers to these locations included swirling gas influenced by an early planet’s gravity, as well as rings and gaps of dust inside dust disks. The survey also clearly showed ...