CaSSIS Camera Hits 20,000 Images Milestone on Mars The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace…
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.
Rice-led study shows two distinct origins of life-essential element in present-day planet. Where did Earth’s…
The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will…
Researchers have proposed a two-step formation process for the Solar System, explaining why inner planets…
Years after its detection, astronomers have learned that a planet called KOI-5Ab orbits in a…
Planetary scientists wondered if bands of winds or swirling storms dominated the atmospheres of brown…
Methane snow on Pluto forms only on high peaks that reach methane-rich atmospheric layers, creating…
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist.…
Planets are formed from the disk of gas and dust around a star, but the…
An international research team led by the University of Bern has discovered an exotic binary…
Researchers considered more variables and took global weather patterns into account to create maps of…
https://youtu.be/O2UZf6i3Hhk This video is a full-globe map of the distant planet Neptune, created from Hubble…
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has…
Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster…
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336…
Stellar Flares With a Chance of Radio Bursts: The Weather From Proxima Centauri A discovery…
New clues lead to a better understanding of the evolution of the solar system and…
Simulations by University of Warwick astrophysicists show that interactions with giant planets could result in…