Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

"This black hole could then grow and consume the entire planet, turning it into a black hole with the same mass as the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

There are various models of what dark matter consists of. One would have the consequence that it could literally eat up giant planets like Jupiter.

Astronomers have photographed WISPIT 2b, a giant planet still feeding on gas in a dusty ring gap 433 light-years away. The ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit ...

Jupiter joins existing supercomputers in the EuroHPC network – namely, MareNostrum in Spain, Leonardo in Italy, Lumi in Finland, Discoverer in Bulgaria, MeluXina in Luxembourg, Vega in Slovenia, ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it ...

An international scientific team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including members of the UNIGE Astronomy Department, the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of ...