Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology for a virtual seminar by Margaret "Maggie" Thompson, Ph.D. at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 6. Abstract One of the most characterizable ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has reshaped key ideas about Jupiter. Data collected during the probe’s polar orbits reveal a planet with jet streams plunging thousands of kilometers deep, a lopsided magnetic ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do? UCLA and ...

Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

Researchers have discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets in our Milky Way. Of these, the sub-Neptune class, which are smaller than Neptune and more massive than Earth, are the most common. These planets ...

The symposium Interior Provocations: WEATHER encourages provocative, boundary-expanding proposals from design practitioners, historians, educators, and theorists that challenge traditional definitions ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...