With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars ...

With over 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, we're starting to get an idea of which types are common and which are rare. We've learned that our solar system is rather unusual in ways you wouldn't expect.

Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the millions of atmospheres of pressure present in the interior ...

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April 4 (UPI) --NASA announced Monday that its Hubble Space Telescope has obtained photographic evidence that some "gas giant" plants such as Jupiter are formed in a way contrary to the dominant ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. – Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the millions of atmospheres of pressure ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 113, No. 788 (October 2001), pp. 1227-1231 (5 pages) ABSTRACT The problem of detecting Jovian‐sized planets orbiting white dwarf stars is ...

A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar system. Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are ...

Dust in protoplanetary disks is recognized as the building blocks of planets. In the core accretion scenario, the abundance of dust in disks (or metallicity) is crucial for forming cores of gas giants ...

To learn how planetary spectra can be used to search for life on other worlds and analyze a mystery planet's spectrum for potential signs of life. copy of the "Exploring Spectra" student handout (PDF ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. - Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the millions of atmospheres of pressure ...