The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
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Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...
The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...
Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.
A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered complex atmospheric shifts in SIMP 0136, a free-floating ...
In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...