Juno redefines Jupiter’s shape by accounting for its winds
A study published in Nature Astronomy uses radio occultation measurements from the Juno spacecraft to derive Jupiter’s shape while accounting for...
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A study published in Nature Astronomy uses radio occultation measurements from the Juno spacecraft to derive Jupiter’s shape while accounting for...
On September 17, 2025, NASA announced that its count had reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets. The figure marked a milestone in a catalog that adds...
NASA puts the number of confirmed exoplanets at more than 6,000 and estimates that billions exist in the galaxy. The catalog makes it possible to...
Gaia23bra b has 1.6 times Jupiter’s mass and orbits an orange dwarf star at a distance similar to that between Jupiter and the Sun. NASA explains...
Neptune’s dark vortices are high-pressure systems that are difficult to observe directly. Hubble detects them especially well at blue wavelengths...
The apparent clustering of some orbits of icy Kuiper Belt objects led Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown to propose the possible existence of a di...
The observation of two planets forming around WISPIT 2 links the search for young worlds to a larger question: how planetary systems, including o...
The official sources supplied place planets and exoplanets at the heart of several NASA research lines. They also describe a source seen by Webb...