“Based on the Juno radio occultations, we find that the size of Jupiter is smaller, more oblate, because at the equator, the ...

According to New Scientist, these findings are based on recent data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, representing the most accurate assessment of this gas giant's size in over 40 years. Unlike Earth, ...

Apple made the visionOS 26 release candidate available to Vision Pro developers on Tuesday, and one of the more interesting ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

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

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

Recently, humanity's exploration of the universe has achieved a groundbreaking discovery—the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter may look like a beautiful ball of swirling clouds, but on the inside, it is a gaseous inferno.

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...