Perseverance rover’s 360-degree panorama of Mars, featuring 2.38 billion pixels from Jezero Crater, offers insights…
Browsing: Planets
Planets are celestial bodies that orbit stars, formed from the gas and dust of young solar systems. They come in a wide variety—from rocky worlds like Earth and Mars to gas giants like Jupiter and ice giants like Neptune. Studying planets helps scientists understand how solar systems form and evolve, including the conditions that might support life. This field includes both planets in our own solar system and exoplanets, planets orbiting stars beyond the Sun, discovered by powerful telescopes and space missions. This page features the latest research and discoveries about planets, their atmospheres, surfaces, and potential habitability.
On December 18, 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope captured remarkable images of Uranus, revealing…
Videos from the rover show its shadow moving across the Martian surface during a 12-hour…
Levitated Dust Takes a Carousel Ride Around the Giant Ringworld Though Saturn’s unusual-looking “cup handle”…
The research also reveals how they can prevent life in other solar systems. In some…
New View Reveals a Strange and Dynamic Ice World When Voyager 2 flew past Uranus…
A team from UNIGE together with CNRS has managed to simulate the entire runaway greenhouse…
A rare star system with six exoplanets has been unlocked with the help of ESA’s…
A groundbreaking study reveals that cool stars with strong magnetic fields produce powerful stellar winds,…
Recently, a team of scientists involved in NASA’s InSight mission completed an analysis of seismic…
An international collaboration between astronomers using the CHEOPS and TESS space satellites, including NCCR PlanetS…
Researchers at Penn State have discovered an unusually massive planet, LHS 3154b, orbiting an ultracool…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a high-speed jet stream in Jupiter’s atmosphere, moving…
Study led by University of Chicago astronomer Rafael Luque may tell us about how planets…
Astronomers find a range of molecules that are among the building blocks for rocky planets.…
Researchers led by Rafael Luque discovered six planets in a rare gravitational resonance around a…
Hubble Telescope confirms the size of Earth-like exoplanet LTT 1445Ac, offering new insights into its…
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has provided new panoramic images of Mars and its moon Phobos,…