Thus, when studying Enceladus, every detail really matters — which brings us to a new, very strange detail that scientists ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma.

The strange blend of surface chemistry on Nix and Hydra raises big question about the evolution of the Pluto system.

Hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io are likely powered in the same way as Earth’s volcanoes.

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Discover the fascinating feature of WASP-69 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet with a comet-like tail of gas, shedding light on ...

25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus ... revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its ...