Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

The Sun and its planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune The different planets have different properties and conditions. In general, as the distance from the ...

Astronomers have officially announced the name of the largest structure in the known universe. It was reported earlier this ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have ...

Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting ... a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how ...

Gravity is the force that governs the structure and motion of the solar system, keeping celestial bodies together in a cosmic dance. The sun, with its immense mass, generates the strongest ...

“The images reveal a remarkable diversity in the structure of belts. Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a ‘belt’ like our Solar System’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a ...

Discover Quipu, the universe's largest known structure, spanning 1.3 billion light-years and containing 200 quadrillion solar ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...