“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

A new study reveals a detailed look at what lies beneath the Hawaiian hotspot.

Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

A team of researchers has just demonstrated that essential molecular chains, peptides, can form spontaneously on cosmic dust grains, meaning in space. This result changes our understanding of ...

Following the announcement of Steve Tandy's Wales matchday 23 for the Six Nations game against England, here are our winners ...