All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...
What if the insides of planets are more complicated than we thought? A new study from scientists at UCLA and Princeton ...
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...
"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...
Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.
Large planets need metal-rich stars in order to form ... Planets larger than Neptune are somewhat rare because they must undergo runaway accretion, a feedback loop of accumulating hydrogen ...
Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria ...