Rogue planets may be more common than we thought, and they may form alone in the void in the same way stars do, suggests a recent study. We think we know how the universe is structured: Moons orbit ...

It’s hard to build a family these days — and that’s especially true when the neighbors’ stellar winds keep eroding all the gas out of your protoplanetary disk. A team of astronomers recently watched ...

Moons come in many forms. To understand why there are no gas moons, in our solar system at least, it's best to first understand how gas giant planets form. There are two scenarios for gas-giant planet ...

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

(CN) — In a study published in the Astronomical Journal on Monday researchers explain how their detailed chemical analysis of gas giants in a solar system some 130 light years away sheds light on the ...

At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. “I try to nurture that,” says Rubio, a machinist in Pomona, California, who makes parts for mining and ...

Dimitris Stamatellos receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar ...

Astronomers have determined that the planet Kepler-10c, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope back in 2011 and thought to be a gas giant, is actually solid, making it an unprecedented ...

It’s often said—we said it again ourselves just last week, in fact—that our own Solar System isn’t as typical as scientists once imagined. We’ve got four small, close-in, rocky planets (Mercury ...

Moons come in many forms. In our solar system we have rocky moons (e.g. Earth's moon), ocean moons (e.g. Europa and Enceladus) and frozen-ice moons (e.g. Triton) but there are no gas moons. Are we ...