It may sound like science fiction, but for distant planets it could be a reality. Scientists believe that deep within the atmospheres of these ice giants are gases that are different from those ...

In Europe, researchers from the Swiss University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS developed a machine learning model that identifies planetary systems with ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for ...

There would be no “Imperial March” from “Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back” without “Mars” from Gustav Holst’s iconic work “The Planets.” “The Planets” has been capturing ...

They’ve been observed throughout the solar system, on every planet and moon that has enough of an atmosphere—from the roasting skies of Venus to the frigid poles of remote Uranus and Neptune.

Astronomers have discovered a doomed, disintegrating planet with a comet-like tail that is shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material each time it orbits its star. The small, rocky world—given ...

While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to ... Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at ...