New research using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope examines the maximum sizes of gas giant exoplanets, measuring chemical compositions and formation processes in the HR 8799 system.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than ...
Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...
The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just got more precise, and it turns out there's slightly less of the giant than ...
Some of the planets in our Solar System are gigantic. But what if they got even bigger? Let’s go up the planetary size chart ...
New work from a team of Carnegie scientists (and one Carnegie alumnus) asked whether any gas giant planets could potentially orbit TRAPPIST-1 at distances greater than that of the star’s seven known ...