Planets

Common types of planets form initially as massive, low-density worlds surrounded by hydrogen and helium atmospheres. Research on V1298 Tau...

Galactic globular cluster NGC 6569 actively losing stars through tidal stripping. AAT observations reveal mass loss rate 5.6% per billion...

Distance of a rogue planet measured; KMT-2024-BLG-0792 Saturn-mass world located 10,000 light-years away, breaking mass-distance degeneracy through microlensing parallax. Astronomical...

Lineup of cosmic wonders; 2026 features Artemis II lunar mission, total solar eclipse, supermoons, planetary conjunctions, and fading interstellar comet...

Most normal matter in the universe; Fast radio bursts reveal 76% of ordinary matter resides in intergalactic medium, solving decades-old...

3I / ATLAS Carries The Key Molecules - Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals unprecedented methanol and hydrogen cyanide abundances suggesting life-building...

Webb captures dwarf stars in Westerlund 2 stellar nursery; James Webb reveals brown dwarfs and planetary disks 20,000 light-years away...

Uranus and Neptune are not ice giants; University of Zurich research reveals rockier interiors than expected challenging traditional planetary classification...

Old Moon Dust looks different from fresh regolith; space weathering creates nanophase iron particles altering ultraviolet signatures complicating resource mapping...

Largest rotating structures discovered; astronomers find razor-thin galaxy chain spinning within cosmic filament 140 million light-years away revealing galaxy formation...