Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...
The planets orbit a star around 133 light-years away from Earth.
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.
A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...