- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- August 13th, 2015
Baby Jupiter Discovered Merely 100 Light-Years Away
This is probably what our Jupiter looked like in its infancy
- Space
- By Lucian Parfeni
- August 19th, 2013
Free-Roaming Exoplanets May Be Born Away from Any Star
Dense gas clouds may lead to the formation of gas giants without any star around
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- May 10th, 2013
Astronomers Now Know What Four Strange Exoplanets Are Made Up Of
The gas giants have long interested astronomers and were the first to be directly observed
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 27th, 2013
First Photo of a Planet Circling Two Stars
The planet is a gas giant, 12 to 14 times larger than Jupiter
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- January 9th, 2013
NASA Telescopes Find Extreme Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
These failed stars have weather systems similar to those of gas giants
- Space
- By Lucian Parfeni
- January 3rd, 2013
ALMA Sees Two Baby Planets Feeding Around a Nearby Star, a First-of-Its Kind Find
The radio telescope saw the exoplanets guzzling up gas from their surrounding cloud
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- July 10th, 2012
Cassini's New Orbit Reveals Saturn's Rings Again
The spacecraft has not seen them like this in over two years
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- July 25th, 2008
CoRoT Discovers Odd Planetary System
CoRoT-Exo-4b's synchronous orbit spawns new mystery for astronomers
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- June 3rd, 2008
Weighing the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf Star
Theoretical brown dwarf mass predictions don't match observations
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- May 10th, 2008
MARVELS to Find Hundreds of Exoplanets
The project is due to start this fall
- Nano-Biotechnology
- By Gabriel Gache
- April 29th, 2008
Experiment Recreates Conditions inside Gas Giants
Researchers extract helium equation of state at high pressure and temperature
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- April 11th, 2008
Link Between Stars and Planets Found
The coldest brown dwarf ever discovered
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- March 27th, 2008
Giant Planet is Taking Shape in Star System
First direct observation of a possible forming planet
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- March 20th, 2008
Methane Found on Distant Exo-Planet
First detection of organic molecules on an exo-planet