Of the nearly 6,000 confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way, Tylos has one of the most-studied atmospheres out there. It's what we call a hot Jupiter – a world comparable in size to our own gas giants, ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body in our solar system. As demonstrated by explosive news from NASA on ...

A celestial object may have altered Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Simulations suggest it was up to eight times Jupiter’s mass The study proposes a close flyby reshaped planetary orbits ...

Hot Jupiters are massive planets, similar in size to Jupiter, but they orbit their stars much closer than Mercury orbits the Sun. Since there isn’t enough gas and dust in these close regions for such ...

is the most egg-shaped and tilted), the paths of the four outer giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — show minor deviations from the ideal orbits. Yet explaining these niggling ...

accelerated by the gravity of either Jupiter or the sun itself, said Bloomer. For comets, the period around the perihelion (during those orbits when they manage to dive deep toward the center of ...