An animation posted to Twitter has shocked social media users by showing the impressive size of Jupiter and just how rapidly the solar system's largest planet rotates. The animation posted by ...
Scientists have discovered over 4,000 exoplanets outside of our Solar System, according to NASA's Exoplanet Archive. Some of these planets orbit multiple stars at the same time. Certain planets are so ...
Bigger than a planet? Smaller than an atom? Size comparison videos are all the rage and may scratch a very old itch. By Jenny Marder Not long ago, my 7-year-old son looked up from a picture he was ...
Astronomers have discovered a planet the size of Jupiter orbiting a star that’s only half the size of the sun — a celestial phenomenon that contradicts theories of planet formation. NGTS-1b, a massive ...
JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...
Astronomers have discovered a new Jupiter-sized exoplanet that possesses less than one-third of the mass of the solar system's largest planet, giving it a density similar to a marshmallow. The team ...
Want to know how the Millennium Falcon compares in size to an Imperial Star Destroyer? Just watch a Star Wars movie. But if you want to know how that hunk of junk compares to the Battlestar Galactica, ...
An analysis of the first three years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission, which already has discovered thousands of potential exoplanets, contains good news for those searching for habitable worlds ...