The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our ... to stump astronomers for nearly two decades—is it a rogue planet, failed star, or something else entirely? Thanks to an ...

Five planets, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, will be visible to the naked eye. Picture: iStock Only five planets, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, will be visible to the naked eye.

This finding is a milestone in exo-meteorology, or the study of weather on other, distant alien planets. By monitoring ... of approximately 13 times that of Jupiter, is only 20 light-years away ...

AN INCREDIBLY rare celestial display is set to be visible tonight, where seven planets will align in an arc across the sky. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Saturn and Mercury will align in ...

Instead, the title of “most abundant” belongs to the class of super-Earths or ... transits of the Sun’s planets, they would note a dip by 1 percent when Jupiter passed in front of the ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

The article envisions the solar system forming a cricket team with each planet embodying unique player characteristics. From ...