Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

A new study has uncovered how exoplanets, orbiting too close to their stars to retain water, are surprisingly water-rich.

When a planet is born from swirling pockets of molecular gas and dust that surround a young star, it forms under conditions of intense gravity and pressure. The process is violent, the first stages of ...

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre. It's football-shaped and rains gems. Now, astronomers leveraged the power of four telescopes to observe what's transpiring deep inside this giant ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." When a planet is born from swirling pockets of molecular gas and dust that surround a ...