Saturn Makes Waves in its Own Rings In the same way that earthquakes cause our…
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.
ESA’s Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo spacecraft made a historic Venus flyby earlier this week, passing…
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on August 10, 2021, as…
Curiosity’s exploration of Gale Crater suggests sediments formed from wind-driven deposits, not a lake. In…
This image was taken on March 22, 2021, in the Lunae Planum region [16.74°N, 300.9°E]…
NASA’s InSight mission has revealed Mars’ interior structure, including a layered crust, a thick lithosphere,…
Scientists discovered Jupiter’s aurorae are heating the planet’s atmosphere, answering a decades-old mystery. New research…
The planet: TOI-1231 b The discovery: A planet some 90 light-years away from Earth is…
Astronomers found water-rich planets and a habitable zone candidate around L 98-59, making this system…
Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo are set to make space history with two Venus flybys just…
Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star…
Three studies published in the past month have cast doubt on the premise of subsurface…
The newly discovered COCONUTS-2b is the closest directly imaged exoplanet, a cool gas giant orbiting…
NASA’s InSight mission has, for the first time, precisely measured the thickness of Mars’ crust,…
New Techniques Illuminate Venus’ Nighttime Weather Little is known about the weather at night on…
Using seismic waves from Marsquakes, InSight scientists have mapped Mars’ internal structure, identifying crustal layers,…
Researchers have traced Jupiter’s X-ray aurorae to volcanic ions from its moon Io that are…
Life around white dwarfs likely evolves after the star’s death, as earlier stellar winds would…